What Next: The Cops Don’t Want You Listening In

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Citing the risks from criminals listening in and pranksters interfering in their channels, the NYPD is the latest and biggest police department moving to encrypt their radio communications. But what about the reporters who rely on the police scanner—and the public who rely on those reporters? Guests: Todd Maisel, contributing editor at AMNewYork and photojournalist Adam Scott Wandt, associate professor of public policy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	I have three scanners built into my car.
0:59.0	Three.
1:00.0	Yeah, three radios.
1:02.0	Are they doing different things? One radio is devoted to fire and
1:07.2	EMS and the other one is cops and then I like to listen to the local precincts, so I know what's going on wherever I am.
1:16.0	It's not just the radios.
1:19.0	Todd's got flashing lights on his roof, a little desk inside with a laptop on it, but it's those radios that let
1:25.8	him do his job.
1:27.3	He's a news photographer.
1:28.9	When he's in New York, he's basically chasing the NYPD by listening in.
1:36.0	That must get cacophonous in there.
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