OK, so something thats never happened before needs to be curtailed?
And even if so, active shooters are rare, do we need to encrypt ALL chatter for something that happens maybe every few years for a given precinct/jurisdiction?
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JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 months agoOff of the top of my head, I can see how an announcement of an open shooter at a location might attract some Meal Team 6 Rambo wanna-be to try and bust in and save the day and making it significantly worse.
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Nope, even never had any sort of analogous situation where armed civilians show up to insert themselves and potentially complicate matters: washingtonpost.com/…/in-all-reality-there-were-th…
do we need to encrypt ALL chatter…
I never suggested we did. The original poster referenced a specific context of a “sensitive situation” and you asked for an example, so I provided one that could qualify.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I’ve never heard of this happening. It’s probably more for people avoiding police and maybe ambulance chasers.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 months ago
We had a kid cross state lines to show up to a riot with a gun to defend property and shoot people. Just because you haven’t heard about it doesn’t mean it’s not plausible which is what I said.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And? Do you think he heard about it from a police radio, and not literally every news outlet that was covering it at the time?
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 months ago
You must know that unencrypted police radios have been a upstream source for local media for a long time, right?
And I’m not arguing that encryption is a good idea, in fact I think a blanket encryption of emergency radio is a bad idea (but nuance on social media is invisible).
But an earlier poster asked for a situation where it could be helpful to protect a sensitive situation and I provided one that we have seen analogs of in real life.
ripcord@kbin.social 8 months ago
Plausible, but is it likely? Enough to be even remotely worth it...?