Bad and Good Public-Safety
Public-safety radio systems that encrypt keep the citizens ignorant, thus they lessen public-safety. You cannot hear them dispatch, not even nonsensitive calls, using affordable radio scanners. Government servants, security services, and citizens can use radio scanners as a cost-effective and very useful safety tool. Also, cheap radio scanners make good mutual-aid tools for on-duty or off-duty police near city, county, or state lines outside their jurisdiction borders. Instead you have to pay about $10,000 for a corporate-branded radio plus its expensive programming software to put in the decryption key.
This new move to over encrypt public-safety radio communication is not wise at all. That is said with much expertise on this matter. The criminals do not benefit being able to listen-in but stand a much greater chance of being caught by law-abiding citizens who listen-in. Research this subject and you will find the benefits of open public-safety radios far outway that of closed public-safety radios.
The over encryption of
public-safety radios is worth stopping but it takes an educated
and active citizenry to stop it. A good example was the formation
of Citizens Against Non Tactical Radio Encryption Evolution (CANTREE)
created by an avid radio scanner user named Joe Mattern (WX4ADX)
in the Orlando, Florida area. You can get more educated on this
subject by visiting the links listed below and going to my other
webpage links at the bottom of this webpage.
A great interview explaining amateur radio and later explaining
why open radio communications is helpful:
http://www.voices.com/demo_detail/70794
One of the biggest taxpayer ripoffs are upgrades to government radio systems that began to rapidly increase in the 1980s and continues today at higher and higher prices. Most of the costly upgrades was really unnecessary, but corporations profiting in radio communications wanted bigger and bigger profits. If it is not broken do not fix it, but they wasted your tax money anyway. The old radio-systems worked really good but now that they replaced and re-replaced radio systems, the FCC is making it happen again in 2013 with narrow-banding of the VHF and UHF radio systems. You would be shocked at all the money spent for little to no improvement of government radio systems.
Those who are in charge of public-safety departments that upgrade to fulltime encryption of routine and emergency dispatch channels need to be kicked out of office! There is something very wrong with a community that wants to encrypt routine and nonsensitive law enforcement channels and that will not put service reports on the Internet for the public! What history has taught us back in the late 1960s and early 1970s when big-city police departments first got new analog voice encryption toys was that most people rejected and stopped supporting their local police. Later, the police departments stopped over abusing the use of analog encryption because overall it caused more problems than it solved when they realized their radio communications was important for the public to be able to hear. But now they have new digital encryption that is easy to use and abuse.
Who wants secret police? Not the true Americans that respect the U.S. Constitution! We now have a new breed of brainwashed Americans that forgot ethics in government that are amoral perverting freedom and justice with fear. They have militarized and federalized local (city, county, etc.) and all state governments to centralize power and this began well before 9-11. They have corporations involved in training police into thinking that the public is always the enemy and killing them is good. It is these insiders that can use their inside access to abuse the innocent but then again some like to think they are part of the winning team so being bad seems good to them! It is now time to stop supporting and reject the encrypted secret police or public services.
Your bosses use compartmentalization to make their lower-ranking staff ignorant from what is the right or wrong thing to do to other humans! Your bosses do not trust you in using open radio communications because they think you will use it improperly. They want you to be ignorant and just do what they say, even if it is wrong!
A Federal Communication Commission (FCC) rule would put a stop to the over abuse of encryption by government. There has been a rule that bans Amateur Radio from using encryption. Community TV and radio broadcast stations cannot use encryption. The FCC should make a new rule.
Educate yourself on the
long history of openness of government radio-communications
inside the United States of America:
stepsto2.htm
Governments in the state of Florida have taken the lead to encrypt not only all law enforcement but also fire, EMS, and in some places all departments of your public servants. It is outrageous for you the taxpayer to be closed out of important public information conveyed in realtime on government radio systems.
The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) is being sued for not closing I-75 due to thick smoke and fog that caused major casualties in 2012. If they turn their radio encryption off, which is easy to do but they never do, you would have been the first to know about it using a radio scanner. In the past you could listen to the FHP for accidents in real time, but not anymore since they switched to full-time encryption. Why not include this in the suit?
The State of Florida agencies on the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) uses proprietary Provoice plus DES encyrption (no thanks to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush):
* Florida Department of Highway
Safety and Motor Vehicles / Division of Florida Highway Patrol,
4868 units;
* Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, 3168 units;
* Florida Department of Corrections, 2262 units;
* Florida Department of Law Enforcement/Criminal Investigations,
1200 units;
* Florida Department of Transportation/Motor Carrier Compliance,
818 units;
* Florida Department of Transportation/Road Rangers;
* Florida Department of Military Affairs / Florida National Guard,
614 units;
* Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services /
Division of Agricultural Law Enforcement, 417 units;
* Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation /
Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, 395 units;
* Florida Department of Environmental Protection / Division of
Law Enforcement, 391 units;
* Florida Capitol Police;
* Florida Department of Financial Services/Insurance Fraud, 331
units;
* Florida Department of Financial Services/State Fire Marshal,
285 units;
* Florida Office of Attorney General/Medicaid Fraud Control Unit,
142 units;
* University of Central Florida, 95 units;
* Florida Atlantic University, 57 units;
* Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, 31 units;
* Florida Division of Emergency Management, 29 units;
* Florida Department of Management Services, 21 units;
* Florida Office of Attorney General/Cyber Crime Unit; 17 units
* Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, 11 units;
* Supreme Court of Florida, Office of the Marshal, 9 units;
* Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Orlando
Campus, 7 units;
* State Attorney's Office, 2nd Judicial Circuit, 1 unit;
* State Attorney's Office, 14th Judicial Circuit;
* Florida Department of Community Affairs;
* Florida Department of Lottery;
* Florida Senate Sergeant at Arms;
* Florida House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms;
Other Current SLERS Partners:
* Baker County - Sheriff's, Fire, EMS;
* Bradford County - Sheriff's, EMS;
* Corrections Corporation of America;
* Dept. of Health - Radiation Control;
* Dept. of Health - State Medical Response Team;
* Franklin County - Sheriff's;
* Glades County - Sheriff's;
* GeoGroup, Inc.;
* Levy County - Sheriff's, Police, Fire;
* Okaloosa County;
* Okeechobee County;
* Seminole Tribe of Florida;
* Social Security Administration - Investigations;
* Tampa General Hospital, AeroMed Service;
* Union County - Sheriff's Office Emergency Management;
* Walton County - Fire.
SLERS Interoperability Partners:
* Amtrak Railroad Police;
* Broward County Emergency Management;
* Clearwater PD;
* CSX Railroad Police;
* Eglin AFB Fire;
* Hillsborough County SO;
* Jupiter PD;
* Leon County SO;
* North Miami Beach PD;
* Orange County SO;
* Pinellas County SO;
* Regional Domestic Security Task Force - Region 1;
* St. Johns County SO;
* Sumter County SO;
* U.S. Department of Justice - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobaco, and
Fire Arms Enforcement;
* US Forestry Service LE (Baker County Area);
* U.S. Navy - King's Bay and Jax NAS Fusion Center.
* U. S. Marshal's Service
* National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
* U. S. Forestry Service Law Enforcement
You had better get rid of the heads (Sheriff, Police Chief, Mayor, Manager, etc.) and their other supporters of closed nontransparent government communications!
Radio systems, listed by Florida counties, that are open to serve the citizens or closed to disserve the citizens. These are places you do not want to live and do not want to spend money. The color codes from yellow, orange, to red as they get worse :
Current list as of May 27, 2012
* Alachua - open
*
Baker - closed all routine services on SLERS
* Bay - open
*
Bradford - closed
sheriff's and EMS routine on SLERS?
* Brevard - open
* Broward - open
* Calhoun - open
* Charlotte - open
* Citrus - open
* Clay - open
* Collier - open
* Columbia - open
* Dade - open but City of Coral Gables routine closed due to Provoice system
* DeSoto - open
* Dixie - open
*
Duval - closed all county and Jacksonville-area cities law-enforcement
routine plus hospital emergencies encrypt - then in 2012 fire/rescue
routine encrypt. This corrupt county is where it first started!
* Escambia - closed sheriff's routine
*
Flagler - closed
sheriff's routine due to Provoice encryption
*
Franklin - closed
sheriff's routine on SLERS
* Gadsden - open
* Gilchrist - open
*
Glades - closed
sheriff's routine on SLERS
* Gulf - open
* Hamilton - open
* Hardee - closed sherriff's routine
* Hendry - open
* Hernando - open
* Highlands - open
* Hillsborough - open but City of Temple Terrace police and
fire routine encrypt -
Tampa to encrypt in 2012?
* Holmes - open
* Indian River - open
* Jackson - open
* Jefferson - open
* Lafayette - open
* Lake - closed sheriff's and all cities law
enforcment routine encrypt as of 10/2010
* Lee - open - but sheriff's and cities routine
to encrypt in 2012?
* Leon - closed Tallahassee police closed routine encrypt
* Levy - closed county and cities police/fire
routine on SLERS
* Liberty - open
* Madison - open
* Manatee - open
* Marion - open but sheriff's silent dispatch nonemergencies on
CAD
* Martin - open
* Monroe - open
*
Nassau - closed
sheriff's routine encrypt
*
Okaloosa - open? SLERS?
* Okeechobee - open
* Orange - closed sheriff's and all law enforcement
in the county closed city of Orlando police routine encrypt, Apopka fire and police
routine encrypt, Winter Park police routine encrypt
* Osceola - open but all services to encrypt in 2012?
* Palm
Beach - open but
closed City of Palm
Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, and Jupiter routine on OpenSky
* Pasco - open
* Pinellas - open?
* Polk - open?
* Putnam - open
* Saint Johns - open
* Saint Lucie - open
* Santa Rosa - open
* Sarasota - open?
* Seminole - open
* Sumter - open
* Suwannee - open
* Taylor - open
*
Union - open? EMS
SLERS?
* Volusia - open
* Wakulla - open
* Walton - fire on SLERS?
* Washington - open
More of a worldwide list is
available at:
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Encrypted_Agencies
The encryption creating a
nontransparent government is a big clue of impending tyranny!
Notice that the United Kingdom and its former empire that
are now its Commonwealth countries of Australia, New Zealand,
Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong love to keep its citizens below
its authorities instead of being public servants to its citizens.
Now, it is the United States of America that is being
Europeanized again. Folks, this was why we fought the British and
created the greatest constitution this planet has had so far. It
was to keep the European aristocrats with their centralized power
from getting their influence inside the governments of the U.S.A.
and to give you individual freedoms!
They have made their move to erode the U.S. Constitution! Stop them or be a sheeplike animal instead of a human like they did to most of the Europeans. They will make you an animal instead of a human because it is actually worded that way in their laws, look into you will find it. That violates freedom of religion because the main religions are written to tell you are a human not an animal.
Make them see the evil of their ways or they will try to eliminate us with their technology assets! These warnings to you are scattered around my webpages. This is a big deal!