That might sound like a good solution, but I think it has some major drawbacks.
Audio quality...............Most of the streaming stuff doesn't sound very good.
No control over what channel you are listening to or any customization.........meaning what's in your scan list or not.
How to listen.............either stuck on your computer with decent speakers or listening on a smart phone with a crummy speaker or earphone.
It seems like the perfect compromise is to just have encrypted channels for the RARE occasion where it's needed. The VAST majority of calls don't need it. If they did all the agencies would have had it years ago.
Then the department, the media, and the citizens are all happy with a nice compromise and trade off between officer safety and the ability to know what's going on.
Assuming that something happened to cause Arvada to make the change, what was it, something like 1 call in how many thousand?
They didn't need to lock out everything. Didn't they already have an encrypted TAC channel?
Locking out everything is at least a big overreaction to something, but begs the question about what's really going on there.
why can't these departments just put up their own feeds with a delay added in to make using it to evade law enforcement useless but still allow the public to monitor them?
seems to me this would be a good compromise.
