[Scan-DC] Code 100/ 0100

[Thomas Philip Clouse]

The Code 100 from the MTP (in the vernacular: "they aren't subway cops,
babe, they 're transit cops) radio and the 0100 code for Montgomery County
are definitely two different things.  The person who suggested that code 100
was to stay out of an area because of terrorist-type activity was, IMHO, not
too logical in the context that the dispatcher was calling it.  If it was
"stay out of an area", every transit cop would have been taking cabs back to
the station at shift change.  As far as I could tell, every stretch of the
system was called as a code 100 at some point last night.  It makes much
more sense that (as someone else posted) code 100 is "call the dispatcher
for some sensitive information" type thing because the dispatcher was
calling these codes by saying "units on the red line between union station
and takoma park, code 100", then a few minutes later, it was "units on the
green line . . ."  This was about the same time that a lookout was being
issued for the Chevy Caprice with NJ tags and some other vehicle.  So I be
guessing, that is what all those 25-cent-depositing-calling-on-the-pay-phone
transit cops were hearing last night.