Phoenix Metro Public Safety

[KB7MIB]

I'm struggling to find a news story about it now, but I also remember an incident in the Valley where news crews overheard the address of the registered owner of a suspect vehicle and arrived to 'set up' on his house before undercover police vehicles could.

Online streaming of scanner audio is frequently referenced in encryption discussions. We forget the contributions some local news crews have made to that trend too.

That was after a shooting incident, related to divorce proceedings IIRC, and is allegedly why Phoenix PD C-deck went encrypted, because they put the address out over the air, and one of the news station crews beat the officers to the address.

John
Peoria

 

[918Dave]

I remember listening to that call. Ch3's Tess Rafols was at the shooters home address before PD. It didn't take long for that C-Deck change either. I was so disappointed.