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Many many years ago a buddy of mine loved listening to the scanners. One evening we are on AIM chatting and he explains what is going on: noise complaint at a
by hypercube33 1y ago
Many many years ago a buddy of mine loved listening to the scanners.
One evening we are on AIM chatting and he explains what is going on: noise complaint at a house down the block (kids partying)
He looks the address up and calls them to warn them and sits back to see if they do anything.
sounds like they managed to bail before anyone showed up to the address.
- baby_souffle 1y agoNot all heros wear capes. Some of them keep their ears glued to the scanners...
- zdragnar 1y agoNow replace "kids" with gangs and other organized crime, and it makes a little more sense why they'd want to encrypt it.
- chillingeffect 1y ago...so the gangs will continue the crimes?
- zdragnar 1y agoSo the organization can't alert each other when they hear one of their locations or operations on dispatch.
- radicaldreamer 1y agoGangs and organized crime have more sophisticated ways of avoid law enforcement
- tptacek 1y agoDo they? What are they?
- radicaldreamer 1y agoBribery is a common one, counterintelligence is another, compromising people who are investigating them (or their family members)
- defrost 1y agoAlong with radicaldreamer suggestions it's also common to be really effective at stonewalling police while on secure wire cameras with audio recording and to have very good criminal lawyers on retainer. Also having patches and wannabes who are prepared to scapegoat themselves. This isn't so much directly evading law enforcement but it's effective as it can easily cause police take actions that cause evidence and cases to be thrown out, raise reasonable doubt, etc. Depleting resources and diversions are also relatively common, creating a 'fake' public threat or hate crime to investigate bleeds police resources away from ongoing investigations, etc. The tango between gang squads and organized criminal groups is an ongoing escalating battle. The EncroPhone transcripts revealed a lot.
- asdffdasy 1y agoyou deserve neither freedom or security! according to our founding fathers.
- MSFT_Edging 1y agouh huh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
- lukan 1y agoHuh? In europe when the police comes to a loud party, they come and tell the people to please be more silent. (And if it is just minor kids, ask for a adult) So if the party dispersed in panic before they even arrive .. problem solved fpr them? Or does the US police busts loud parties gun blazing in general?
- sokoloff 1y agoMany times they’ll take an interest in underage drinking or recreational drug use, which the party attendees might prefer they didn’t get tagged for.
- SoftTalker 1y agoAlso depends on which neighborhood and whose house it is.
- throw-qqqqq 1y ago> Or does the US police busts loud parties gun blazing in general? Nah, but lots of these parties have kids below than 21 (or whatever the legal drinking age is). So they get fined or arrested if caught so they leg it. A friend attended a Chicago-suburb high school for a year (exchange student). Said he had to run from cops at private parties about a handful of times in that year, and that it was pretty normal in his group.
- waltbosz 1y agoI grew up in a college town, our house was the only family on a street full of student rentals. The police were frequently breaking up parties. That gave me an idea for a business that would listen to police scanners and warn the party if an officer was inbound.