Hemry
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Hello,
A while back I was more involved in OC. Getting back into it now. Besides being observant, what's the best way to know when police have been called about you?
During one of my OC walks, a crazy neighbor (who I did not know) confronted me on the street. While I was walking by, he came out of his house to accost me. I did not respond and went on my way. I could see that he was getting on a phone to call the police, so I walked away down the block, out of his sight, and entered my dwelling. A short while later, the area was absolutely swarming with police. They had to have had at least five if not more vehicles there, searching up and down the street in a determined and coordinated way. Police had many long guns and looked ready to do battle. It was a manhunt. (I might have posted about this back when it happened - I forget.) Fortunately they had no sense of the suspect's location, nor any evidence which building he might have entered, and so they were confined to searching the street, and that was basically that.
Anyway, that incident turned me off from OC, and I haven't done it much since. Now that I'm getting into it again, I'm concerned about the prejudice and fear of others who are not educated about our rights. If I had been caught outdoors by surprise by the police last time, things may have gone very differently: I'm certain that in the least I would have been put on the ground at gunpoint and disarmed (the cops looked really worked up). It's easy to imagine things turning out worse than that due to a mistake or misunderstanding.
Since I abide by the law and do not commit crimes, I was wondering: is there an effective way to monitor police dispatch in the Seattle area? I would like to get a heads-up if a citizen has become unreasonably alarmed and made the mistake of reporting my lawful activity as a crime in progress. Are police scanners effective for this purpose, and is there any you'd recommend? This may give me the time that I need to react, such as calling the police myself, or deciding to leave the area, or deciding to stay in the area (if I was leaving), etc. Plus I would hate to leave an area and trigger a ruckus after I've departed without knowing it. Will such a call reliably go out across a frequency I can scan?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Hem
A while back I was more involved in OC. Getting back into it now. Besides being observant, what's the best way to know when police have been called about you?
During one of my OC walks, a crazy neighbor (who I did not know) confronted me on the street. While I was walking by, he came out of his house to accost me. I did not respond and went on my way. I could see that he was getting on a phone to call the police, so I walked away down the block, out of his sight, and entered my dwelling. A short while later, the area was absolutely swarming with police. They had to have had at least five if not more vehicles there, searching up and down the street in a determined and coordinated way. Police had many long guns and looked ready to do battle. It was a manhunt. (I might have posted about this back when it happened - I forget.) Fortunately they had no sense of the suspect's location, nor any evidence which building he might have entered, and so they were confined to searching the street, and that was basically that.
Anyway, that incident turned me off from OC, and I haven't done it much since. Now that I'm getting into it again, I'm concerned about the prejudice and fear of others who are not educated about our rights. If I had been caught outdoors by surprise by the police last time, things may have gone very differently: I'm certain that in the least I would have been put on the ground at gunpoint and disarmed (the cops looked really worked up). It's easy to imagine things turning out worse than that due to a mistake or misunderstanding.
Since I abide by the law and do not commit crimes, I was wondering: is there an effective way to monitor police dispatch in the Seattle area? I would like to get a heads-up if a citizen has become unreasonably alarmed and made the mistake of reporting my lawful activity as a crime in progress. Are police scanners effective for this purpose, and is there any you'd recommend? This may give me the time that I need to react, such as calling the police myself, or deciding to leave the area, or deciding to stay in the area (if I was leaving), etc. Plus I would hate to leave an area and trigger a ruckus after I've departed without knowing it. Will such a call reliably go out across a frequency I can scan?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Hem
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