Tasks / Monitor Police Communications.

Monitor police communications in any manner of your choosing.
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In the zone of: Humanitarian Crisis
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I used to do this when I was i at Brooks and when I worked for a newspaper for spot news hunting. Radios are okay, but in Skid Row, it's easier if you follow the helicopter spotlights. I also found out that the only day Compton is quiet (cause I was on their frequency using a police scanner) is the day before Super Bowl Sunday.
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Ahhh, Here's one up my alley. Monitor police communications. I borrowed my friend's scanner and programmed in the appropriate frequencies. Placing the earphone in my ear, and into the device, I was able to hear the sounds undetected. Now to ho...
I used an old police scanner that my Mom bought off of a client for $40. I documented 2 hours of police and ambulance calls. 5:32 - Female coughing up blood, cystic fibrosis patient, ambulance needed 5:36 - Residential automatic fire alarm activa...

Alright, w00t for my first real task (c'mon, the profile pic doesn't count)... When I initially signed up for this task, I thought it was going to be generally easy; my dad has been a cop/firefighter for over twenty years, and I have easy access to ...

First task , not very anarchic or silly , more detection avoidance ,spotted this as it is something I have an interest in through work,I knew work had a scanner somewhere in one of its engineering rooms so I "borrowed" it and took it home...

I had a hard time finding this online. There is a huge page (http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Internet_and_Radio/Police_Scanners/) devoted to the different precincts scanners, but almost none of the links work. I finally found a bunch of San Diego one...


I'm curious as to how this completes the task. Did you overhear a conversation about serial murders committed by electric-types? Is there some new "think-of-the-children"-oriented law that is suddenly being enforced? Beware. Praxis without...


I decided to monitor publicly accessible police communications. The site of the "Police de Lausanne" has all of their press releases and I have read each one from 2008. I have also subscribed to their RSS feed, therefore I will be kept up-...
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