My section of town is fairly safe but is surrounded by not so safe areas and my Police Zone which I can't hear anymore is constantly busy with violent crime, mostly gang related from. I live just south of Trenton New Jersey and on the border just north of Philadelphia PA. I can understand in some communities it's car stops and barking dog calls. Data and car checks were always done on a separate channel nobody wants to hear that lol Our police is fully encrypted now but we used to have at least dispatch. It really does matter where you live and what type of area you are in. After a major flood, the city sold the course (they kept the land, but all operations were sold to a company that restored the course and now runs it) their operations moved from the city system and is now done using some other method (cell, I believe) and is no longer monitorable. Much better than any of those MTV 'reality' shows. There was never a code-3 chase using a golf cart going after a golfer that failed to reset their divot, but the interaction between the fairly young cart wranglers (mostly male) and the food and drink folks (mostly female) was fun to listen to. It may not sound interesting, but I used to enjoy listening to the city's golf course operations, specifically the food & drink team. The exciting stuff is mostly encrypted or done using the MDC. '9278, check MDC for assignment' or 'New Mexico ABC-123 clear, no wants, no warrants'.

To each its own but there's more to listening than the rare (but exciting) large police SWAT action or multi-city chase.

Drivers license barcode scanner for mdc