This alert I just got on my police scanner app. Kentucky, WTF are you doing? : mildlyinteresting

[+] FragrantOwl@lemmy.world 134 points 10 months ago

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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago

I thought it was about gardening

Officer 1: There's a garden of nightshade

Officer 2: That could be tomatoes or potatoes

Officer 1: Which is potted?

[-] cbarrick@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago

Definitely a crossword.

Officer 1: Thirteen down. Ten letters. Another name for a cauldron. Starts with 'w', ends with 't'.

Officer 2: That's a witches' pot, Ted.

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Officer 1: You heard about that massive flying butt plug...

Officer 2: You don't believe that shi...

Officer 1: Which was spotted.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Hey Coach, did you get wordle today?

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure it was: Officer 1: arrest that stoner, he pirated Oppenheimer!

Officer 2: I got two guys here chief, both look like the hacker type, using something in their phones called "Lemmee?"

Officer 1: Which is pothead?

[-] astraeus@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

I like “witches spotted” much better

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

At this point if witches started attacking id barely even skim the article before going back to scrolling.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 points 10 months ago

"Good for them"

[-] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

I live in IN, across the river from KY. This sounds completely on brand.

[-] Addition@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago

Do you ever take the time to gaze across the river and feel like you're looking at a zoo enclosure?

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

any updates?

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 43 points 10 months ago

Turns out she was a duck, so they let her go.

[-] Gargantuanthud@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

[-] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unfortunately not. Once I had tuned in they either weren't talking about it anymore or switched to an encrypted channel. In my mind I'd like to believe it's the second 'cause some crazy ass bullshit is going down with some witches in Kentucky.

[-] xamirozar@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

At this link you can try to listen back if you know the time it happened. I love that scanner app. It pulls from Broadcastify.com

Link: https://www.broadcastify.com/archives/feed/34633

[-] Silentiea@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

13 minutes before the timestamp in the screenshot's metadata.

Also, autocorrect thought you should look at the tomato in the metadata instead.

[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Autocorrect was just trying to get you to ketchup.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

They burned her.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Perhaps he's affecting a Cockney accent and saying "Which 'es spott'ed"

The computer just didn't know what to do with the "innit"

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago

Police scanner app?

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 27 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna assume you're not from the US given your lemmy instance. In the US most police radios transmit "in the clear", i.e., not encrypted. As such, anyone can buy a "police scanner", or a radio on the same band as police/first-responder frequencies.

In the internet age, there's websites (and apparently apps now too), that physically monitor these radio channels and stream them online. Hence, a "police scanner app". Hope that helps.

Having typed all that out, the only thing I ask is to let us know where you're from, please.

[+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The police very much care, and want to be able to encrypt all their traffic.

It’s open for public transparency, mostly.

https://www.rcfp.org/police-radio-encryption-trend/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/03/new-york-police-encrypt-radio-nypd-transparency?ref=biztoc.com

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

And I fully support this. It shouldn't be encrypted because they're serving the citizens.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

There is an argument to be made that there’s a public security interest to encrypt some traffic, like when they call in someone’s information to run a check on them. And I think that’s a legit concern.

There are some fully encrypted systems (which cops want), and there are some hybrid systems, which are more expensive but would keep transparency in place for the population. Those systems work a variety of ways, such as putting the live comms on a 30-minute delay when there’s a big incident, and fully blocking personal information from citizens.

I think the latter is what they should be using, with very very very specific and clear rules on when they can and cannot encrypt, with regular external audits of the encrypted portion to verify no misuse. But if they won’t go hybrid and submit to inspection, leave it wide open. It’s more important that we have transparency (at this moment in time, due to police behavior), which is a thing I really really hate to say but it’s true..

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Normal stuff is in the clear. When they're going to do a raid or talk about sensitive stuff they do switch to an encrypted method of communication. Nobody is listening to the scanner and getting warned that their drug lab is about to be hit.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 10 months ago

Well... Not nobody.

[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

So wait need for speed radio chatter could be something street racers actually had??? I had no idea, I always thought it was kind of silly

[-] scoobford@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Yes, although many departments are switching to encrypted radios. It's a minor political issue, because it fundamentally means less oversight, but also in the event of a major riot or coordinated civil unrest you also might not want to broadcast patrol routed unencrypted.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

One of the Mexican countries

[-] figjam@midwest.social 6 points 10 months ago

Sooooo, Mexico or New Mexico?

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Some time ago some American politician used the phrase unironically. Most speculated they were referring to Latin American countries, but since the politician was a republican and correcting themselves is anathema, we'll never know.

Anyway, it's become a favorite of mine to repeat this, tongue in cheek.

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

You assume correctly, UK. Seems kind of crazy, but the other reply chain explains it.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yup

[-] Sky_Lobster@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

What app is this, and do you recommend it?

[-] 18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Scanner Radio Pro. Uses the feeds from broadcastify.com which used to be part of the RadioReference network.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

The more things change, right?

Mildly Interesting