Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 8 months agoAnd? 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.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Sure, they get some information from radios. They also usually have at least one person at the headquarters at all times. They will know about big events regardless.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 months ago
I forgot that police have no filters or power in person to be more private in discussions about sensitive topics just because there’s a person at their precinct. All conversations happen wide open just like you get with a police-band scanner. 🤦🏻♂️