#Police Scanner

[beatsforbrothels]

Chanel Beads - Police Scanner

[praxidyke]

five or six police cars just went by my house with the sirens on, so I put the scanner on and they were saying there was a shooting in my neighborhood.

turns out it was just a bb gun.

anyways, "yeah I don't think we need this many units for... him" is a very funny thing to hear on the scanner. he sounded so mad. the dispatcher kept phrasing it like "shots fired....... with a bb gun"

[outcel]

wake up babe new Chanel Beads dropped

[clevelandpolicescanner]

Lots of mental/Psych police calls all around town tonight. We are also getting a lot of reports of drug overdoses possibly from heroin.

[phrostbyte7]

.. don't get caught slippin'..

[tlhinganhom]

A bunch of my relatives live in Outagamie County, WI. By way of one of their Facebook posts I have discovered their local police scanner group and it is everything I hoped it would be.

[publiccollectors]

As an artist, it's always a huge pleasure when people you don't know in cities you've never visited find value in your work and want to exhibit it. It's even better when all you have to do is say YES and then they take care of the details and present the work in the situation they have created. So in early April, my text CHEST WOUND TO THE CHEST, compiled from 75 days of listening to the Chicago Police Scanner, will be projected at night in a public space in Prague thanks to the group OBJECT:PARADISE who are working in collaboration with Incident Report in Hudson, New York. Thanks to Maximilian Goldfarb for making this possible. More concrete details on how to see this in Prague here. The complete text, from the brochure I made for Incident Report, is included above. 

[bonniebirddoesgifs]

Bonniebirddoesgifs:

Hemlock Grove police scanner (hemlock Grove) - Credit if using

[zipscanner]

[ibelonginneverland]

Tonight would have been a good night to listen to my police scanner. Its a full moon so you know shits poppin

[deadgodjess]

[Image description: several tweets in the NYCScannerDuty tag from multiple people claiming to have heard an NYPD officer say "shoot [the/that] motherfucker" regarding NYC protesters.]

[publiccollectors]

PUBLIC COLLECTORS POLICE SCANNER

[PURCHASE]

Public Collectors Publication #51. For its 51st publication, Public Collectors continues with the daily creative practice of QUARANZINE but shifts its focus from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Chicago Police Department. The result is an intense barrage of notes about what could be heard over the police scanner, accompanied by an essay about the project and the experience of listening and taking notes. From the back cover:

For 75 days in 2020 I listened to the police scanner and the interplay between dispatchers and Chicago police officers working throughout the city. I listened using Broadcastify.com and Crimeisdown.com. While listening, I took notes and indicated the day, date, and time on a sheet of paper, along with the day number for the project. I would listen in one continuous session for around 45 minutes a day. This book compiles every day of my police scanner notes. I began on September 10, 2020 and ended the project on November 23, 2020. – Marc Fischer / Public Collectors

[zipscanner]

[pdale8-blog]

Once upon a time, the average man with a couple hundred dollars in his pocket had the listening power of the government at his fingertips when it came to cell phones.