They are listening in, too...
Maxed out at 1251 at around 1:00. I think people finally figured out that nothing was happening.
Actually there was quite a bit happening but it seemed to be in clusters. I was listening at around 0200 when an officer was hit in the head with a projectile and PPB was calling for Code 3 medical. The AMR response was delayed (likely due to the crowds) and one could her the stress in the officers voice when he called BOEC back and just about screamed that the ambulance was not there yet and they better step it up. Sounded very intense.
And some of the people listening in to the RR scanner feed were relaying what they were hearing directly to the protesters, via the Occupy Portland web site live feed chat box. When I heard some of the relevant scanner traffic, within just a moment or two somebody was typing into the chat box the same information. They would also occasionally add a link to the Multnomah county RR feed so it is likely they were getting the information from RR.
On the other hand, I doubt that the RR feed was monitoring things like Central Tac 1, and I think PPB RRT was using that talkgroup to coordinate their ops. There was still some related information on Central dispatch, though (taking projectiles, occasional calling for back-up, more officers needed we can't control the crowds, protestors climbing up light poles, sabotaging generators, etc).
What interested me the most was when PPB abandoned their lines near the Justice Center and withdrew, followed by traffic on Central dispatch that they were shutting everything down and all units returning to their respective precincts, etc. Some of that traffic may have been disinformation (?) to throw the protestors off track, because a few short hours later PPB was back in force, caught the protestors by surprise and threw them out of the parks. PPB was also monitoring the Occupy Portland live feed chat box (where scanner information was posted) because they mentioned it on Central dispatch.
If Occupy Portland does take over a park or some other space again and a confrontation is imminent, check out the Occupy Portland live feed; you will see protestor video and audio in real time and the chat box where they update each other with scanner intel, intel on the movements of PPB that they see, occasional coordination of protestor movements by moderators, etc:
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