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Piscean Electron
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Monitor police communications. by Piscean Electron

July 27th, 2008 2:45 AM / Location: 36.969732,-122.0248

INSTRUCTIONS: Monitor police communications in any manner of your choosing.

Ahhh, Here's one up my alley. Monitor police communications. I borrowed my friend's scanner and programmed in the appropriate frequencies.

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Placing the earphone in my ear, and into the device, I was able to hear the sounds undetected.

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Now to hop in my car and do some police watching. First I went to a vehicle stop, with a driver's license check.

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Next I observed a foot patrol. They seemed to be hassling the usual crowd that hangs in this area. They wrote some tickets for drinking in public.

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I'm not sure if this woman was an officer or not, but she walked with the foot patrol officers as they went about their business. In training or an actual plainclothes officer?

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Later on a woman was pushed into a car by two males, and she was yelling for someone to call 911. The cops issued a county wide ROPE with a limited vehicle description. Police cars were all over looking in the area. In 20 minutes they found the car with the engine warm. No one was inside. They tracked the owner of the vehicle down but I did not catch the rest of the incident...

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RadioShack Pro-164 Scanning Receiver

RadioShack Pro-164 Scanning Receiver


SC Police Blue 154.770

SC Police Blue 154.770


Listening In

Listening In


Vehicle Stop

Vehicle Stop


Foot Patrol

Foot Patrol


Plainclothes with Officers

Plainclothes with Officers



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6 comment(s)

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posted by teucer on July 27th, 2008 9:31 AM

Excellent first task. (Hell, excellent task.) Welcome to SF0.

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posted by GYØ Ben on July 27th, 2008 9:09 AM

Nice. Better than just listening on a scanner, you actually went and DID something.

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posted by Piscean Electron on July 27th, 2008 1:32 PM

Thanks for the votes and comments! This is a really fun exercise if you can get a hold of a scanner. It helps to have a car and to know your city really well, or have a phone with Google maps so you can look up stuff. You learn how police work in your town.

Well done.
posted by Spidere on July 27th, 2008 2:54 PM

Nice work actually going around and getting some insight into what the police are doing. Very good. Welcome!

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posted by The Found Walrus on August 16th, 2008 12:31 PM

The Walrus approves enormously of your task and also your username.

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posted by Ben Yamiin on August 16th, 2008 12:34 PM

You've done it!