I do not believe using any particular service should be outright banned, though I certainly hope that courts would never utilize testimony from psychics. If I

I do not believe using any particular service should be outright banned, though I certainly hope that courts would never utilize testimony from psychics. If I take a few steps back I can see some benefits to using them. Having met a few self proclaimed psychics, what I took away from that experience was that they are usually very perceptive and intelligent people that have incredible skills at reading people. This is course sets up the opportunity to scam someone and that is probably where they get their bad reputation. Social engineering can be used for both good and bad. In my opinion the act they put on is just flare to distract from their ability to read people and give them an out when they fail to piece things together. This is just a theory of mine and I have many wacky theories, but I could see psychics being a human resource for police much like a psychological counselor is to an individual, meaning that the police may already have the data/answers they need but may not be seeing the bigger picture. Perhaps a psychic can observe what police are stating and help guide them into finding answers themselves. The closest analogy I can muster is the fictional Sherlock Holmes using their ability to see all the variables and put them together in a bigger picture when the fictional police could not see the answers that were right under their noses. Or perhaps I am giving psychics too much credit.