Editorial: Keep police radio communications public
by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Aug 12, 2022
3 minutes
Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those early days, headquarters occasionally interspersed calls to Motor City police cars with renditions of “Yankee Doodle” to satisfy the Federal Radio Commission requirement that public airwaves be used for the public, and not just for police business.
Communications remained public as two-way police transmissions became common
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