Mayor Lori Lightfoot is defending the city's decision to start the process of encrypting police radio transmissions.
"It's about officer safety," Lightfoot said. "If it's unencrypted and there's access, there's no way to control criminals who are also gonna get access, listen in and adjust their criminal behavior in response to the information that's being communicated."
Our newsrooms monitor emergency scanner traffic to report everything from traffic congestion to developing threats to public safety. Real-time access to police scanners promotes transparency and accountability by law enforcement. An analysis of the scanner transmissions in the Uvalde, Texas school shooting revealed that law enforcement's response was not as local authorities had first portrayed it. The availability of scanner communications also directly led to the video recording of the killing of Alton Sterling by two Baton Rouge police officers.
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