Which 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 t

Which 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.