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Saturday, January 5, 2019

Info Post
By Roger Sanders


Law enforcement has come a long way from its primeval roots. Nowadays, there are nifty gizmos that allow the easy transmission of events immediately and at real time. This is achieved through the police radios and scanners used by its personnel. However, it seems another development is looming in the horizon, what with Police Reform Talk Radio.

For some people, tuning in to a police radio is a novel and exciting way to keep up with the state of affairs in ones area and also its law enforcement. They get to listen about emergency situations that are brewing, and that at real time. Accordingly, it gives them the feeling of being informed and also prepared for impending actualities.

Examples of the codes are 10 48, which calls for an ambulance transfer call. A 10 56 means suicide, 10 71 means shooting, and 10 70 means fire. Of course, these are truncated and limited examples. The idea is that there is an according code for nearly all kinds of crimes, emergencies, and disturbances under the sun.

Reforms have therefore been called to order so as to revert the doublespeak to run of the mill vernacular. That would enable the hoi polloi listening in to better understand the state of events going around them. Also, that would better enable them to act and report accordingly, and also spread the news accurately.

One might assume that these are used so that the public wont be able to figure out what the police are saying. However, this doesnt at all make sense since these police codes are researchable, especially these days as we are cruising along the information superhighway. So these doublespeak codes are actually reachable within everyones fingertips. Also, some agencies actually make their dispatch calls and other communications public.

Theres totally no denying the extreme usefulness of these police scanner apps. Through it, one is conveniently connected to feeds from the emergency departments in his or her area. With the right app or website link, one can even access scanners even when not at all proximate to the area of interest. So this can be a really nifty way to keep track of your home area even when youre far away from it at the moment.

This is convenient since the officers need to keep interactions brief and relevant and therefore focus on the incident or task at hand. There are also the safety functions involved. This is because the officers primary focus is zeroed in on the given task. Essentially, it puts them on emergency mode.

One can surely appreciate the idea behind this. In the original lingo, there are according codes for everything, which have to be memorized and internalized, and all that under pressure. For example, 10 34 means a bomb threat. 10 36 means burglary and 10 43 means armed robbery. These codes are of course strange and even impractical to workaday citizens.

However, tradition holds clout to the last moment. After all, there indeed are nifty uses and purposes for these rarified codes. On the other hand, the nub of the whole affair is essentially service. So its the general publics interest that has to be catered to, even if it costs these officers some modicum of convenience and breakout from tradition. So there stands the validity of these calls for reform.




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