Looks like you might want to throw out all your paper weights and make room for your radio previously known as a police scanner. Your police scanner is a thing of the past . About all you’ll hear on it these days is snow plow drivers and garbage trucks.

There seems to be a trend across the country to encrypt Police, Fire and other emergency services. Large cities like New York and Chicago aren’t the only ones. Smaller towns and cities are following in tow.

Many arguments have been dismissed with calls of transparency ignored. It seems without Federal guidelines in place, local municipalities can do as they please. The feds seem disinterested and the FCC only appears to address individuals not local government.