The days of Chicago reporters and news photographers relying on a live, crackling police scanner to chase news and tell the public what officers are doing in real time are quickly coming to an end.
A Chicago police officer with police radio on his belt keeps watch near Oak Street Beach on Aug. 18, 2022.
The Broadcastify transmissions are direct audio feeds from OEMC. In addition to the delay, dispatchers will have the ability to pause the transmissions when personal identifiable information is being discussed, the office said.
Since then, the majority of the zones covering the South Side and Far South Side have been encrypted. Richard Guidice, executive director of OEMC, agreed that officer safety is a primary reason for the encryption, which is on schedule to be completed by the end of 2022. OEMC receives anywhere between 7,300 and more than 13,000 calls in a day, he said.
“Hopefully, if anything good comes out of this, it will be that news organizations in Chicago start talking to law enforcement about getting better data information, not just about incidents, but about broader trends,” she said, “because that’s really how you can start to explain public safety risks to the public.”Moving police communications to encrypted channels is not uncommon.
“And maybe their judgment of what is news is different than your judgment of what is news,” Roberts said.Photographer Justin Jackson holds a police scanner while monitoring radio transmissions in 2014. Almost every police vehicle has some type of computer where a lot of information that used to be communicated over the radio is now exchanged, so a lot of it is already not being broadcast, Osterreicher said.
When it comes to the Chicago’s argument that encryption is keeping information away from those who may be committing crimes, that is “at best speculative,” Yonka said.
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