I've noticed the same thing with my local PD (Winsted). Still on the open air in plain old analog, but the same radio traffic is encrypted on CLRMN. Essentially what I end up with is the audio on my analog scanner coupled with the OTA aliases on CLRMN that reveal not only badge numbers but names of the officers (so much for keeping everything under wraps with encryption) which is the best of both worlds for me
At the risk of stating what you already know, the intent of encryption isn’t necessarily designed to hide the unit ID or users name and rank (although it may be possible?). It’s the information being conveyed, the sensitive and proprietary content that is being protected.
