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...also busies himself with appearances on a variety of cable television shows and with regular spots on National Public Radio...
...trained ear—I want to hear it all. Some journalists look at a police scanner as a tool of the trade, but my obsession goes much deeper. The scanner is a complement to my personality. I am an inquisitive guy and a consummate rubbernecker. This beautiful black radio lets me in on everything going on around me, even if I can’t make it to the scene. I keep it blaring in my dorm room all the time, covering up silence with white noise...
...don’t just hear the facts—nothing but the facts, ma’am. That Joe Friday approach is the fare of police logs and bad cops reporting. These raw radio transmissions give out the texture of law enforcement’s culture. You hear the way police, fire and medical responders think. Even better, you get a sense of the humor and frustration that goes with their jobs...
...intoxication squad is on its way.” The dispatcher responded: “Don’t forget your rubber boots.” Police complain to their buddies about the bullets, beats, and boredom they face on the job and this bubbles over onto the radio. They become more human than Dirty Harry, if not as funny as Beverly Hills...
Emergency responders, however, make up only part of this constellation of radio stars. My scanner tracks the chatter of taxi transmissions after a Red Sox game and the gastronomic gurgle at McDonald’s restaurants. Even the school bus fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely...