Nye County Sheriff Pulls Feed

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seaweedfalse

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NCSO posted to social media:

Online Scanner Feed

The NCSO has decided to stop our communications feed that supplies our radio traffic on many scanner apps. Many times, we are finding suspects using this feed against us. When we have been involved in vehicle pursuits and searches for suspects, they have also been listening to us. This jeopardizes our safety and the Law Enforcement mission.


Wonder if the big E is coming soon for them? Or if they think criminals are dumb enough to just rely only on BCFY....

The Calls feed on the "other" section of the site still appears to be up. Sure would suck to lose another dept.
 

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It is both amusing and frustrating when some paper-tiger Chiefs start clucking to the public about officer-safety & operations-security concerns caused by "scanner app" streaming, yet they're not so vocal & brave when it comes to truly improving safety & security by demanding their city or county executives find funding for encryption. I expect they'll get it when SNACC switches to P25/II or they go with the new NSRS P25/II network.
 

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It is both amusing and frustrating when some paper-tiger Chiefs start clucking to the public about officer-safety & operations-security concerns caused by "scanner app" streaming, yet they're not so vocal & brave when it comes to truly improving safety & security by demanding their city or county executives find funding for encryption. I expect they'll get it when SNACC switches to P25/II or they go with the new NSRS P25/II network.
Think about the availibity of the modern smartphone; nearly everyone has one. Then think about the amount of people who not only own scanners, but are capable enough to program them with trunking networks. That number is much lower. At least you need some rudimentary skills to successfully use a trunking scanner. By cutting the feed they are removing 99% of the people who have access to their radio traffic.

It is worth considering that maybe that's all they wanted to do.
 

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Think about the availibity of the modern smartphone; nearly everyone has one. Then think about the amount of people who not only own scanners, but are capable enough to program them with trunking networks. That number is much lower. At least you need some rudimentary skills to successfully use a trunking scanner. By cutting the feed they are removing 99% of the people who have access to their radio traffic.

It is worth considering that maybe that's all they wanted to do.
It seems to be a perfect storm of several issues. Yes, SmartPhones/streaming enables more non-technical folks to be able to listen. But there are also more people and we seem to be a lot lighter on criminals overall. While the intent of the original FCC rule was to raise the severity of a crime when committed while monitoring, there's too many who feel we can't lock 'em up for as long as the law (originally) dictates.
 
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