{"id":849,"date":"2008-06-18T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=849"},"modified":"2008-06-18T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T20:46:32","slug":"police-call-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/06\/18\/police-call-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Call of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across our <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.radioreference.com\/index.php\/Pro-96\">digital scanner<\/a>, which I updated with a newer DSP firmware, and I dug up some good batteries. I&#8217;ve been keeping it on fairly often, and have to say that I&#8217;m glad I have.<\/p>\n<p>I think I kind of got accustomed to the Waltham\/Boston scene, where it wasn&#8217;t that uncommon to hear officers being dispatched to a shooting or a carjacking or similar. I did hear an awfully exciting call Sunday (?) night, in which an officer was dispatched to an alarm activation (very routine: it seems like there are constant false activations), and reported that there was a hole cut in the back door with a torch and the smell of the torch was still in the air. Basically every officer high-tailed it over there, and they surrounded the building while waiting for State Police to bring in a dog to search the building&#8230; Turned out that they&#8217;d already left, though. (Without stealing <em>anything<\/em>, though I didn&#8217;t find that out until I saw it on the news the next evening.)<\/p>\n<p>But more often than not, the calls are laughably mundane. So the highlights for today and yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Yesterday: &#8220;I&#8217;ll be off with three males&#8230; having an altercation over, uhh&#8230; a baseball cap.&#8221;<\/li>\n    <li>Today, I only caught the tail end of it, but it was a dispatcher giving out a call: &#8220;regarding some fake swans on her property&#8230; in her way.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The best part is that you can tell they&#8217;re trying their hardest to remain serious, as if they&#8217;re pausing trying to find a way to make the call not sound laughably unimportant.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across our digital scanner, which I updated with a newer DSP firmware, and I dug up some good batteries. I&#8217;ve been keeping it on fairly often, and have to say that I&#8217;m glad I have. I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/06\/18\/police-call-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scanner-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}