buddscreek
Active Member
deputies running at high speed north & south on rt5 in mechanicsville.. whats going on?
st marys sheriffs
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awpitt
Main Streeter
Man hunt underway. They're going after a shooting suspect.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
Krispy Kreme truck overturned?
Who knows. Get a scanner app and eavesdrop. Then report to the incident and get in the way.
Who knows. Get a scanner app and eavesdrop. Then report to the incident and get in the way.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
Good. It keeps pain in the ass civilians away and they can't get on Facebook or Nextdoor with breathlessly hysterical updates.
We had a couple or seven people here that used to monitor the scanner and go to wherever the incident was. One time a couple even drove up onto the pier to see what was happening at the end of it.
When I had my first heart attack quite a few of the ambulance/firefighters showed up (I know most of them) but a couple dozen residents did too.
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
This was what was going on:
thebaynet.com
Tragedy Strikes Lexington Park: Young Mother Killed In Domestic Assault, Suspect Dead From Self-Inflicted Gunshot - The BayNet
LEXINGTON PARK, Md. – Deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported domestic assault today at approximately 10:54 a.m. at a residence in the 46000 block of Rosewood Drive in Lexington Park. Upon arrival, deputies found Alaysia Janell Milburn, 25, suffering from a...
thebaynet.com
glhs837
Power with Control
It also means the only source of information we have about what's going on is the Sheriff. Who has shown no great desire to keep citizens informed.
Don't the po-po use a scrambled frequency?
NorthBeachPerso
Honorary SMIB
Informed of what? Seriously. Do you really think the Sheriff, or any agency, is going to give a blow by blow during an active incident like yesterday?
With the way rumors go around anyway, and the inability of many people to understand clear English, I understand why they don't people listening in on scanners, which the bad guys can also do.
glhs837
Power with Control
A simple update or two, like the alerts we get when there is a disabled vehicle on the bridge. NIXLE alerts used to be used for a while, but I don't think they are so much anymore.
"The bad guys are listening" was the excuse used to justify going encrypted. But of course, they never provided any evidence of that actually happening. Like the save the kids from speeders thing, its a red herring to justify what they want to do anyway.
Years ago in Jacksonville, the cops would have me call their pagers not 911 for the druggies in the hood. They new then they were listening on scanners. This was prior to 93!
glhs837
Power with Control
Ah, Jacksonville. That's not here, I might note.
There are ways around that.
Not true. Drug dealers in St. Mary's were busted with scanners in their possession along with large quantities of drugs. They got busted because fake radio transmissions made them think they were safe. Attorneys stopped those so they went encrypted. No, I am not going to give more specifics just so you can twist the words. Do your own homework and stop make baseless statements.
Are they using digital audio or actual encryption?
glhs837
Power with Control
Was that ever made public beyond vague statements? At the time, this is all I recall being said. If there was more information made publicly available about that, I do not recall it.
St. Mary's County Debates Merit of Encrypted Police Calls – Conduit Street
St. Mary's County Debates Merit of Encrypted Police Calls
conduitstreet.mdcounties.org
So, doing some research, I find a lot of chatter from the true scanner junkies, 95% of which is just discussing the mechanics of it and how they might get around it. Did find this though.
Sheriff V Commissioners
I read today's enterprise about the scanner issue. I guess my opinion on that is same as when the issue first came out and that is the police should have the ability to conduct day to day duties without compromising their activities. The thing about this article though was there were two...
forums.somd.com
Eight pages and not one story about these scanner listening drug dealers who were faked out. Seems odd that such an open and shut case supporting encryption wouldn't be big news at the time. Not sure how I twisted anyone's words.