So you've heard about the AI systems that can detect if you're lying in the courtroom, right?

Or the new security cameras that will be able to automatically spot suspicious behavior?

Or the Department of Homeland Security's future attributes screening technology

that will supposedly help law enforcement discover whether someone is going to commit a crime

before the fact?

No?

Well, you will.

Like it or not, the billions upon billions of dollars that have been pumped into the

terror industrial complex since 9-11 have resulted in all sorts of new police state gadgets that are meant to help agents

of the state determine your guilt.

But before you start to sweat about the godlike powers this technology seems to be putting

in the hands of the government, it might be good

to ask ourselves a simple question. Does this technology work or is it all hype?

After all, it wouldn't be the first time that the public has been duped into believing that the

crack CSI experts and their state-of-the-art technology can solve any crime through the power of science.

In reality, more often than not, the crime detection technology of the past has turned out to be pseudoscience at best and outright fraud at worst.

And, of course, it has been used to put innocent people in jail.

Here are four ways the Crime Lab can frame you.

This is the Corbett Report.

Number one, microscopic hair analysis is made up pseudoscience.

You've doubtless seen it in a thousand crime procedures on TV, a bloody murder scene where the murderer has been careful to remove all traces of evidence.

There are no fingerprints or boot prints to be found, no identifying marks or objects, and then one eagle-eyed investigator finds

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