[Scan-DC] Mentions Navy Yard Shooting (how much longer do we have to put up with this?)

Wed Jul 30 16:21:07 EDT 2014

Yep, I recall hearing a USPP officer saying that the shooter was down.

At 04:00 PM 7/30/2014, John Nash wrote:
>Lee:
>
>I remember that a lot of information went out over the Park Police 
>channels.  Their tactical team was at the location as well as the 
>air evacuation and over flights by Eagle.
>
>
>John Nash
>Falls Church VA
>
>
>On 07/30/14, Lee Williams<leonzo at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>I find it fascinating that the Navy Yard Shooting is being used as 
>an example for encryption because: Metropolitan Washington DC Police 
>were the lead agency in the Navy Yard Shooting. They are encrypted 
>so can someone explain to me "what scanner traffic" was being 
>broadcasted or quoted involving the Navy Yard Shooting?
>
>
>
>
> > From: alan at henney.com
> > To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:37:56 -0400
> > Subject: [Scan-DC] Mentions Navy Yard Shooting (how much longer 
> do we have to put up with this?)
> >
> >
> > Arkansas Daily Weblog
> >
> > July 28, 2014 Monday 8:53 PM EST
> >
> > Little Rock encrypting police radio traffic
> >
> > BYLINE: Max Brantley
> >
> > LENGTH: 594 words
> >
> > Jul 28, 2014 (Arkansas Daily 
> Weblog:http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/ Delivered by Newstex)
> > Lt. Sidney Allen, the Little Rock police information officer, 
> distributed this message today:
> >
> > Our radios are undergoing the first stages of encryption. The 
> signal could possibly return by Friday, August 1, 2014. The time 
> frame for full encryption has not been announced.
> >
> > The message has been interpreted to mean police radio broadcasts 
> will no longer be publicly available.
> >
> > David Koon is looking into the ins and outs of this. Forbidden 
> Hillcrest, a Facebook page that has built a big audience by 
> monitoring Little Rock police radio traffic, isn't happy about it, 
> to name just one.
> >
> > As of today LRPD has begun encrypting police radio dispatch, 
> therefore it will no longer be available to the public or the 
> press. This was done with no public discussion and with no vote 
> before the LR board of directors. Repeated inquiries to city 
> officials about the subject over the last several months were 
> answered with silence or misinformation.
> >
> > Public silence will be a blow to a large audience of police 
> scanner hobbyists who monitor the channel regularly. It will also 
> be a problem for news outlets that monitor broadcasts, not only for 
> breaking crime news, but also for traffic problems.
> >
> > Lack of immediacy will be a problem. One questions is what 
> alternative, if any, will be provided on traffic reporting.
> >
> > A bigger problem is the simple absence of information. Case in 
> point: Absent radio traffic, would anyone have known about the 
> wreck, shooting and chase that began in Murray Park yesterday 
> afternoon and concluded at the Waffle House just off Cantrell Road 
> in Riverdale? No one was hurt. But the fact that it happened might 
> not have been publicly known absent the radio traffic. A police 
> department interested in a city's image might decide not to 
> volunteer so many reports about untoward events with the knowledge 
> that none of it was in earshot of regular listeners.
> >
> > On the flip side, it's fair to note the rise of quotes on social 
> media from scanner traffic, some of which turns out to be 
> inaccurate. The Navy yard shooting in Washington[1] was a 
> particularly good (bad) example. Furthermore, there's a growing 
> believe that, with cell phone apps, home burglars and others can 
> tune into police radio broadcasts as a crime aid.
> >
> > Little Rock is moving its signal to the Arkansas Wireless 
> Information Network (AWIN), a time when some other departments have 
> made the decision to encrypt. Said the Russellville police when 
> they made the switch:
> >
> > With the AWIN system our radio traffic will be encrypted. We know 
> that for some people this will be a disappointing revelation. We 
> understand that some of the community monitors our traffic on 
> scanners that they have purchased. We have already received 
> feedback from some of the community on anticipating the change; of 
> course not all of it was positive.
> >
> > We have made this change due to communications and operational 
> security reasons. We have noticed that not all of the monitoring of 
> our system with scanners was done with good intentions. On numerous 
> occasions criminals were using it to track our locations and to 
> deter their capture.
> >
> > It's unclear until we hear more if this concern figures in the 
> Little Rock encryption trial. More to come.
> > [ Subscribe to the comments on this story[2] ]
> > [1]: 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/news-outlets-often-stumble-in-quest-for-speed-and-accuracy/2013/09/16/e5444820-1f19-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html 
> [2]: http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/Rss.xml?oid=3400590id=comments
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