There's no truth like an old truth

Here's a perfect illustration of the old adage Honesty is the best policy:

A man applying to be a police officer in San Diego admitted on his application he liked child porn - and was arrested.

Cops raided Robert Williams' apartment and car, confiscating computer equipment after he admitted he'd had past sexual contact with a child and also wrote he had "viewed, purchased, sold or subscribed to child pornography", local TV reported.
(mx Nwes, Wednesday May 18, 2011)

And in this manner (as Raymond Carver ended one of his short stories) the matter was resolved.