There was a jail break where a officer was killed in TX. The bad guys stored
handheld scanners and batteries from RadioShack, now did they get them
programmed or not I don't know.

"w4jle" W4JLE(remove this to wrote in message
...
I rode with a sheriff last week for a story I am covering. We discussed
scanners and how the police had to outwit the crooks.

When I asked him point blank, how many crooks had he caught that had
scanners, he could not remember a single time.

I would be interested in hearing of
any cases that crooks were caught with scanners. Do not send me anecdotal
evidence. "My brother in law heard from his second cousin that somewhere
up
north..."

While I am sure that a crook somewhere did use a scanner, I would like to
quantify the reality. What was the crook charged? How was he using the
scanner etc. would be extremely helpful.

Fred Hambrecht Sr
Gilbert News
Gilbert, SC

http://gilbertnews.net

"David Casey" wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:45:38 -0600, in
, Charles Duncan wrote:

I'm about to purchase a Uniden digital scanner but I understand some
police
and fire departments can block their calls from being received on a
digital
scanner. Anyone know if this is true? How can you get around that?

Encryption is present on some channels of the department I work for.
Mostly
just the channels the narcotics folks use but I'm sure it'd be just a
simple
programming job to place that on other channels.

I do know that we're able to switch the dispatch part of the channel
over
to
digital which stops folks from hearing us on a scanner (at least until
the
EDACS ones come out). I used it last night when some officers were
going
up
to a house to look for a homicide suspect. I didn't want to chance they
might have a scanner in their house and hear me dispatch officers to
their
address.

Dave
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