My Stories, today: who cares about the truth?

With about 25 years of experience using Nemesysco's voice analysis LVA technology, I have accumulated many stories over these years, and this is one of them.

The first time I rode in a helicopter was for an army mission. No, I wasn't serving in the military, I was "summoned" to help uncover the military personnel involved in a rifle theft. The army sent a helicopter to lift us up to the base where the theft had occurred.

Everything happened very quickly. I was working in S?o Paulo when I received a call informing me of the situation and requesting my participation in solving the case. They were sending a helicopter to pick me up and asking for landing coordinates.

My colleague and I, a staff member trained by me, would have to interview around 30 men with LVA technology. The army was certain that one or more of them were involved in the theft.

We passed on the landing coordinates and made our way to the landing site. On the way, I stopped at my hotel and my colleague stopped at his house to grab a change of clothes, anticipating that the task would take at least a full day.

The trip was quite smooth. The crew treated us very well and made the traditional jokes with first-time passengers, imitating the takeoff of an airplane. We were landing in about an hour.

An officer told us what had happened on Sunday: a group of soldiers were at the base. They were staying in barracks near the Arms House where the weapons were kept. The locations were near the fence that surrounded the area. Without anyone noticing, a group of armed men approached, cut the fence, and entered the base. They went to the soldiers and took them hostage. There were about 8 soldiers, all of whom were put in a bathroom with the door locked.

The men also overpowered a sergeant and beat him severely to make him take them to the Arms House and open the door. As a result, the sergeant eventually gave in. They went in and took 20 rifles. They imprisoned the sergeant in the Arms House and fled.

The soldiers inside the bathroom managed to break down the door. They freed the sergeant and sounded the alarm about the robbery that had just taken place. The officer wanted all the approximately 30 military personnel who were at the base that day to be interviewed. We divided into two groups, established a list for each one, and set up two locations for the interviews. We used Nemesysco's Emotion Analysis Technology – LVA on our computers, prepared a script, and each of us started the interviews with our respective groups.

The sergeant was in my group. Like the others, he denied involvement, and Nemesysco's Emotion Analysis Technology – LVA showed that he was telling the truth. What caught my attention about his case was that he had a badly bruised face. He said he was getting married in a few days and that he wouldn't look good in the photos, which I agreed with. We conducted the interviews until late at night and had to spend the night at the base. The next day dawned very cloudy, and our pilots did not have permission to fly in this weather. We drove back to S?o Paulo, a journey of about 5 hours. The next day, we analyzed all the voice files and concluded that none of the interviewees was involved.

The Brazilian army is made up of recruits from the lower class. Although military service is mandatory for those who turn 18, not everyone will serve. Usually, young people who are poorer and have less education end up joining the military. It is a way to guarantee food and some form of training over the course of a year. Many of them come from areas dominated by criminal gangs. Officers, on the other hand, come from more privileged classes. They are usually university students who have committed to serve after completing their studies, or young people who want to pursue a military career.

Very likely, the robbers who committed the theft of the rifles received information from inside the base. They knew the best way to enter and exit, and the best day to commit the action. In this context, it is not difficult to suppose that the informant was one of the soldiers, but in this case, it could have been any of the hundreds of soldiers serving in that base.

We prepared our report and delivered our conclusion that none of the interviewees were involved in the robbery.

A few days later, my contact called me to thank us for our "voluntary" work and told me that the army had found the informant. Who was it? I asked, to which he replied: the sergeant.

I thanked him, and at that moment, I learned a lesson. That there is the justice of men and the justice of the army. The theft could not go unpunished, it was a great humiliation. They needed a culprit, and the sergeant was chosen to take the blame.

That's life. The truth doesn't always matter. The fact is that the truth often hinders or brings with its conclusions that are unacceptable.

We who operate LVA Technology bring the truth to light. What clients choose to do with the information is up to them.

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