You don't need an Iphone, Android, or fancy app to hear the streaming audio, just internet access. As for these feeds contributing to endangering any officers' safety, well that is the excuse the agencies use to solicit the funding from the council members. Have yet to hear or see any documentation on any specific case where a perp is charged with, in addition to the crimes committed, any language related to the use of, or monitoring during the act of, as relates to listening to PD airwaves.\\
Look what happened in Milford - encrypted. Officers drag racing with cruisers. And former Off Jason Anderson T-Bones a vehicle out of town, while following Sgt Anderson (also at a high rate of speed) back to Milford from West Haven at 96 miles per hour on Orange local streets.
In Meriden, Chief Cossette's kid (also a cop) is beating taxpayers to a pulp, and now he is collecting his 6 digit income behind a desk while awaiting several trials for assault.
The Encryption is a ticket to do and to say anything they want over the air. In this day and age, I don't see the point. Meriden officers have laptops in their vehicles and city issued cell phones for delivery of not to be broadcast confidential information. Why they needed to strap the taxpayers with a $2m tab for this privacy is beyond me. A total waste of money, unjustified, and unwarranted.