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Anecdotal, but an ex-friend cop told me YEARS ago that they never use their radios for "sensitive" communications anyway, they just call each other on their cell phones so that there are no records of their conversations.

>>LgWood+(OP)
In practice you will still hear sensitive information from time to time. Psychology is so dynamic that emotion easily finds a way to route around these invisible barriers. It's hard work and they're humans...

>>LgWood+(OP)
Matt Blaze has a classic talk about crypto failures by LE using radios. In short, the feds still screw it up and accidentally operate in the clear.

I've personally heard a Stingray being used for an arrest being broadcast on an open, analog channel.

https://youtu.be/re9nG81Vft8 (Can't find the original.)

>>LgWood+(OP)
I remember, years ago, that they'd use their Mobile Data Terminals for anything "sensitive", again to get around scanner listeners.

Apparently they didn't know about MTDMon software. Which was even cooler than listening on a scanner, because you could set it to beep the PC speaker if your keywords appeared in the feed.

I assume all that is encrypted now, but it sure wasn't at the time!

>>LgWood+(OP)
*no publicly-accessible records

>>oasisb+h8
> Don't mess with the Postal Inspector.

>>LgWood+(OP)
They use Signal too

>>myself+g9
Most MDTs just use LTE connections these days.