In this day and age where every one is trying to prevent identity theft it is extremely surprising to hear police officers read out a persons full name, social security number and make/color of car with the car’s license plate over a unencrypted radio channel. You would think that there would be rules against this, but obviously they must be thinking that there is no way for any one else to hear this traffic. Some times it just makes you wonder why there hasn’t been any sort of encryption put on the police bands so that normal people can’t hear this type of stuff.
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