{"article":{"id":1160,"heading":"Listening to the LAPD scanner.","author":"BethX","created":"2000-08-16 01:22:22","modified":"2008-03-19 20:06:02","last_modified":"Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:06:02","article":"<p>I've been listening to the LAPD police scanner for the past hour. I need to bone up on my cop codes, but it sounds like a full out police riot. They just announced that LA is in a City Wide Tactical Alert until further notice. If I'm correct that's one level up from where they're at now.<\/p>\n","contact":"beth@magenet.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"City Wide Tactical Alert Announced.","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2000\/08\/1160.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":1165,"heading":"Tac Alert is Nothing","article":"LAPD declares a citywide tac alert every time it wants to hold officers over so they can't go end-of-watch.  The idea is to keep potential manpower available, whether or not they are ever used.  It's a low state of readiness, actually lower than where it sounds like they'd be from reports on this site.\r\n\r\nThey've been on citywide tac alert on and off for two days.\r\n\r\n-Marconi Wireless\r\n","author":"Gugliemo Marconi","parent_id":1160,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-16 01:30:12","modified":"2000-08-16 01:31:30","fileurl":""},{"id":1175,"heading":"Live Stream Possible?","article":"In Seattle, the police scanner was streamed live over the IMC website. Do we have the tech now to do the same now?  Much needed.","author":"Maribel","parent_id":1160,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-16 01:37:15","modified":"2000-08-16 03:51:03","fileurl":""},{"id":1183,"heading":"equiptment needed to stream police","article":"All you need is a scanner and winamps shoutcast plugins.\r\nand oh yeah a fast connection. There are legalities with rebroadcasting an RF signal. Try http:\/\/www.apbnews.com but this is only gonna be their main dispatch. It is possible to get helicopter and riot squad unit to unit if there was someone there with a decent setup.\r\n\r\n","author":"resq_1","parent_id":1160,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-16 11:52:27","modified":"2000-08-16 12:06:46","fileurl":""},{"id":1188,"heading":"Live Police Scanners via the web","article":"\r\nhttp:\/\/www.apbnews.com has live police scanners from a number of US cities including LA.","author":"Matt","parent_id":1160,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-08-16 12:23:27","modified":"2000-08-16 12:39:16","fileurl":""}]}