Talking points regarding openness At some point a police officer will be killed by a perp with a gun in one hand, and a scanner in the other hand. There will be howls and screams to encrypt all police radio channels.
However - 1. The vast majority of police deaths seem to be due to suicide or poor physical fitness. 2. Scanners have been commonly available in the USA since the late 1960s. 3. Power corrupts - absolute power corrupts absolutely. 4. There is no evidence that encryption changes murder rates 1 way or the other. 5. All politicians and chiefs espouse "transparency"; yet very few of them walk the walk. No more than 100 agencies in the USA have official live scanner audio feeds - out of possibly 50,000 agencies and maybe 150,000 radio channels. Etc At some point a terrorist with a bomb and a scanner will kill 1,000 people. However - ??????? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
