The public and news reporters will no longer be able to listen in.

The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers’ communications — reversing a near-century-old practice of allowing the public and the press to listen to police dispatches.

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  • @gAlienLifeformOP
    20•7 months ago

    That’s a really good point I hadn’t considered. However, I’m still concerned that evidence of police misconduct or things that might support an arrestee/defendants innocence is going to be contained in these broadcasts and that we could lose access to that. If this encryption does go forward, recordings of the broadcasts should be kept and their should be a process where defense attorneys and journalists and the like can ask a court for access to them.

    • ares35
      12•7 months ago

      use of different channels (encrypted and not) depending upon the expected contents of the communication would be about as reliable as officer-operated body cams.