I'm a taxpayer too, so I'm going to go to nearby Nellis AFB & demand my right to fly an F-35!
For those of you who say that only the "Tac" & SWAT channels should be encrypted, what about fairly routine dispatches about silent holdup alarms, suspicious vehicles, etc? Oh yeah, many of you (whose grammar often suggests a lack of a high school diploma) make the argument that all crooks are too dumb to use scanners, as if everyone here on RR has an IQ above 90.
Public safety, just like most commercial businesses, have the right to protect what *they* (not us fat, greasy scanner geeks) decide is sensitive information. That includes operational information as well as the privacy of complainants, witnesses, victims, & even suspects at times. There are plenty of federal, state & local LE personnel who out of stress in the heat of a situation or plain ignorance/stupidity, say sensitive things on non-secure channels. I've pretty much given-up trying to educate them about OPSEC/COMSEC, and instead, tend to push towards encryption to give a level of protection to their operations. Over the years, I've both helped the police via my scanner, and also helped myself (hearing where a speed-trap was, for example). But if they want to encrypt everything, that's their right to do so, no matter how many of us whine & protest about our 'civil rights' and 'duty to oversee' being violated -- the reality is that it's just a huge, longtime hobby for most of us & some people have great difficulty adjusting (read: "finding a real life") to no longer sitting on their fat *** with a bag of Doritos, 2 liter bottle of Coke & snooping on their local public safety from their bedroom in the basement of their elderly mother's house.
When I made a recent move, I intentionally moved to a city whose public safety channels were not encrypted, so that I can monitor them out of personal interest/hobby. I get it -- I know it's fun & interesting to listen-in, & that sometimes I can use that ability to benefit the PD, or keep myself away from a speeding ticket, highway congestion, etc. If/when my local public safety decides to encrypt some or all of their channels then sure, it sucks for me, but it's overall a good thing for their effectiveness.
So I too am a scanner geek, but very glad to not be one of the fools that thinks I have some sort of Constitutional right to listen-in on public safety operational communications, that such a right takes precedence over officer-security & effectiveness, that I'm far superior to the common-man & thus common criminals don't know about scanners (& those that use the smartphone apps are too slow to evade LE *if* there's a delay between the on-air transmission & smartphone app broadcast) and that LE always has the intelligence & time to be careful what they say over the radio.