Joys of Police Scanner Radios

oaklander05-28-2009, 11:18 PM
The amount of crime in Alameda County is insane. 99 percent of it does not make the papers. After listening to my police scanner for the last week, I am convinced that it is a battle zone out there!

And not just Oakland - but also San Leandro, Hayward, etc..

The most disturbing calls are when the dispatcher reports something like "RP reports gunshots then screaming and yelling at XXX and XXX."

:eek:

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TheBundo05-28-2009, 11:19 PM
Wow, I'd better stay away from XXX and XXX

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dwtt05-31-2009, 12:48 AM
I had a scanner when I was in grad school and living in north oakland near the Berkeley border. It was an AOR scanner that was able to pick up cell phones. I sent the thing back to the mail order company because it was depressing to hear all the phone calls between couples arguing about one of them having sex with a bartender at the local bar, or some crack addicted kid in middle school yelling at his nonresident father for only buying $50 in groceries for him and his single mother and leaving no money to buy drugs, or some drug dealer on 51st Street offering a teenage girl some weed for a blow job, or the father of a high school foot ball player scheming with an athletic agent how to get the boy to pass drug tests after he took some performance enhancing drugs,... the list goes on. Like someone else said, ignorance is bliss.

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oaklander05-31-2009, 1:22 AM
:)

Not sure yet - still figuring out how to program! The RS dealer did initial programming, but I need to tweak.

Interestingly, I get the local BUS LINE too, and some sort of maintenance channel for public housing - those are funny!

Some bus driver was complaining that someone stole her purse during a bathroom break, and the dispatcher suggested not leaving it in the bus!!!

Then there's the calls for toilet clearing and the like. . .

Are you able to pick up any milcom up by you?

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nobody3305-31-2009, 1:28 AM
I forget who says it, but a LEO here says that 95% of the calls they go to are BS.


About 90% of my hot calls as BS. Pretty accurate. The good stuff usually I happen upon or comes out as nothing on the air.

I had a day last week where I went from a carjacking, to a robbery, to a child abduction in progress, and finally to a murder suspect sighting. All right in a row. Not a single one was legitimate. Two were drug rip offs, and the others were cases of watching too many CBS cop shows.


As a kid I got a scanner for christmas (best gift ever). I turned it on and the first call I heard was the sheriff going to "keep the peace" at a house while the divorced parents watched their kids open gifts. Apparently without the police they would fight...

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