Well, wouldn't you know as soon as I sent this message, I hit the jackpot.
Unfortunately, everything for my area seems to be trunked and in the 800
frequencies.
Guess I'm not going to get much out of my freebee scanner.

you might still get a lot out of your freebie scanner. Just not some of the
stuff that you thought you might get.

The standard scanner bands still have activity on them.

You might not get police or such if your area has awitched to 800 mhz or
digital or a combination.

But you might get other stuff on your freebie scanner, such as railroads,
airplanes, businnesses, etcetera.

You might even get policre from neighboring counties or something.

The police in my area have switched to digital 800 mhz many years ago. I only
have an analog scanner, and I have still found stuff to listen to on it.

If your scanner gets between 118 MHZ and 135.995 MHZ, search in that range to
hear airplanes and airports.

If you search between 450 MHZ and 470 MHZ, you might hear businesses and maybe
even some fast food drive throughs. (although fast food drive throughs are
very very boring to listen to).

In my area, I have found some sort of school security police. who arrested
several of their students. 9'th graders and 12'th graers. (and is frequently
transmitting such activity).

I wonder what kind of school that is?