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I have two solutions for this: The first one is easy: The Police agencies encrypt their Tactical channels and leave their dispatch and car-to-car stuff unencr
by imroot 8y ago
I have two solutions for this:
The first one is easy: The Police agencies encrypt their Tactical channels and leave their dispatch and car-to-car stuff unencrypted. Police still have the ability to mask sensitive operations, the public keeps their "Open" access.
The second answer is a bit more complex -- give the media outlets a radio that is transmit inhibited that has the dispatch channel only on it. I believe that one city (Cincinnati) did that when they moved to P25 a few years ago.
With that said, There's only a trivial space that most radio systems use for encryption these days. In Kenwood radios, it's only 4 numerical digits. While I haven't tried decrypting someone else's NexEdge stuff, a motivated person who wants to hear what's going on, will hear what's going on.
- whoopdedo 8y agoWhich doubles the cost of communication equipment and the cops will just use the encrypted channels all the time because it's more convenient than remembering to switch. Journalists have to learn to do the footwork to researching stories themselves instead of camping on a scanner frequency and copy-pasting what they hear without considering that they may be publishing an innocent person's name in association with a crime. For transparency there's the public releases the sheriff's office puts out that have been written with responsible disclosure in mind. If the public reports aren't detailed enough that's a separate concern that can be addressed without exposing the private details of innocent people or exposing officers to harm.
- jstanley 8y ago> give the media outlets a radio What's the difference between a media outlet and a blogger? How do you ever start a media outlet if you don't have access to the information required to operate a media outlet?