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Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by save_ferris on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:00AM (#23391732)
Do you have a sense of how many precincts are encrypting their scanner comms these days?
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Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by blantonl on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:04AM (#23391774)
Every year new technology drives some agencies to remove their routine general dispatch operations from public access. Some agencies really like their communications to be publically available, and some don't.

If I had to back-of-the-napkin it, I would say that 10-15% of all law enforcement general dispatch operations are encrypted full time. The vast majority in this country is still unencrypted.

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Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by duskwuff on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:56PM (#23393195)
Not OP, but: many common voice encryption implementations have serious usability issues which lead to users inadvertently -- or often even intentionally -- disabling encryption

https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/p25sec0810...

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Re:Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the Georg... by parliament32 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:33PM (#23394407)
That was actually a great read, thanks!
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