That's also why my city's PD has been under federal purview for several years running. They were dirty, covered up for each other and they got caught time after time.

Having been in the profession for 26 years, mine is an educated guess. I am talking criminal conduct bad... doubt there is even close to 10,000 of them.

Let's agree to disagree. You won't change my mind, I won't change yours (or anyone's). Anyway... I have had my say. Don

I've found have found that most scanner listeners are law abiding citizens and they simply what to know whats going on in their neighborhoods. Encryption takes that away. In fact listeners have

Supervise what? How can you adequate supervise something if you are not trained in it? Are you a certified police officer? Sounds like delusions of gradnuer to me. This is why we have Police

Rick Schafer; Thank you for the Introduction to P25 ENCRYPTION. Answered question I had about the subject. don/k0kuz ZUT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Probably closer to 30,000, if not more --- but that's just a guess. David KJ6QKV

In Santa Maria, CA, the police went digital / encrypted only four days after I bought my first serious scanner in 2004. According to someone I have reasons to trust, there were some drug dealers

There is a difference between monitoring and being a source. The latter is technically illegal. Joe M.

Nope. I don't buy it. Not for a minute. I've listened in for decades also (started WAY back when the local PD was just above the AM broadcast band). Then I got in the fire side

You wouldn't stream it to the public, yet you believe in police scanners? Jerry

Ed , Aman well said , 0ver 60 yrs for Myself scanning or tuning it was a Tube regency with a vibrator pwr supply LOL Anyway since I am taking up Bandwidth I would like to Wish all our Vets

A big thumbs up. Ed! Said very well. Don

Agreed. 73, and 88, ve3myr. Murray K, Ottawa. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

I have been a radio hobbyist since the 1970’s. Started listening to scanners back in the old crystal days. I have seen the introduction of voice inversion systems followed by the Motorola DVP

Good idea. As my Dear Old Dad would say: "no sense in crying about it until it happens". HF is a real wonder land of adventure, especially if one has earned a FCC Amateur Radio

I think some just don’t understand the whole encryption process Most newer systems rekey over the air. Which means a radio has to authenticate with the system , be part of a crypto net to get the

I feel the same had many good years of listening. You know, I could listen to anything in those days, and I just listened for enjoyment and my interest in communications. Didn't divulge anything, did

There was an episode on “Adam 12” where the bad guys used to tune into Police Comms… and naturally the Dukes of hazard… of course I’m making light of the situation… when the

Agreed.