Saturday, January 5, 2019

All About The Police Reform Talk Radio

By Roger Sanders


Law enforcement has a lot of innovations and technology up its sleeve. All these make its operations easier and more convenient. It also ups the chances for a better outcome and turnout. However, recently, its procedures and traditions have been challenged with Police Reform Talk Radio.

For some people, tuning in to a police radio is a novel and exciting way to keep up with the state of affairs in ones area and also its law enforcement. They get to listen about emergency situations that are brewing, and that at real time. Accordingly, it gives them the feeling of being informed and also prepared for impending actualities.

One may then argue that these ways and means defeat the enterprises whole purpose. After all, these correspondences are meant to inform not only the uniformed personnel, but also the general public, of the goings on in the society. Using lingos is as good as using a foreign language, as far as everyone else uninitiated to the language is concerned.

Reforms have therefore been called to order so as to revert the doublespeak to run of the mill vernacular. That would enable the hoi polloi listening in to better understand the state of events going around them. Also, that would better enable them to act and report accordingly, and also spread the news accurately.

The aforementioned scanners come in many types and configurations. One may opt for large desktop scanners, or else the small handheld varieties. Or perhaps more conveniently, there are the models which one can customize so as to install and operate inside a vehicle to be on the go.

Anyway, to cut the chase, lets just say that the purpose of cop codes and jargon is to keep communications short and concise. This goes back along the days when police departments have been mandated by federal commissions to make their communications short so as to save bandwidth and make sure that theres no traffic in the airwaves. Also, it provides some sort of unique lingo for cops, and accordingly a sense of inclusivity and professionalism.

This is convenient since the officers need to keep interactions brief and relevant and therefore focus on the incident or task at hand. There are also the safety functions involved. This is because the officers primary focus is zeroed in on the given task. Essentially, it puts them on emergency mode.

One can surely appreciate the idea behind this. In the original lingo, there are according codes for everything, which have to be memorized and internalized, and all that under pressure. For example, 10 34 means a bomb threat. 10 36 means burglary and 10 43 means armed robbery. These codes are of course strange and even impractical to workaday citizens.

However, tradition holds clout to the last moment. After all, there indeed are nifty uses and purposes for these rarified codes. On the other hand, the nub of the whole affair is essentially service. So its the general publics interest that has to be catered to, even if it costs these officers some modicum of convenience and breakout from tradition. So there stands the validity of these calls for reform.




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