Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis, M.A., retired as a Lieutenant from the New Jersey State Police after twenty-five years of service. He was the supervisor of the Violent Crime Analysis and Polygraph Unit. He has been a polygraph examiner for thirty-eight years and has conducted more than 3000 criminal-specific examinations. He has been recognized as an expert in Statement Analysis and was one of the first detectives in the United States to be trained in this technique. Lewis identified the killer of Megan Kanka (Megan’s Law) from a statement read to him over the phone after the man had been cleared as a suspect. He has been teaching Statement Analysis since 1984 and in 1988 he developed an Interview and Interrogation Course, which is still being offered by the New Jersey State Police. He is a certified police instructor, having trained more than 30,000 law enforcement officials in the art of interrogation.