Editorial: This past week several Chicago media organizations banded together to protest Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to put an end to that practice and encrypt police radio broadcasts so they would be publicly available only after a 30-minute delay.
Chicago police have a section of the Loop cordoned off as firefighters worked at the scene of a Level II hazardous materials response on North Clark Street on Jan. 22, 2019.
Lightfoot has said that she has seen circumstances where criminals listen in to these broadcasts and proceed accordingly, since they know if and when the cops are heading in their direction.
If a delay is allowed, the first thing that any officer worried about the potential revelation of a career-ending action might wonder is if the public release of that incriminating information can be stopped or erased. Even if the Chicago Police Department pledged not to mess with the tape delay, there still would be the appearance of a lack of transparency. History is littered with such edits.
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