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How cynical. Let’s just do away with all possible improvements to the system because there might be a counter to them.

The happy reality is that the majority of criminals probably isn’t prepared to deal with all of these tools.

Some people like to think of criminals as evil geniuses. The reality is that the vast majority of non-financial criminals are barely educated dumbasses and that’s how they got there in the first place.

I think a vanishingly small number of criminals have police scanners and radar detectors in this day and age. Especially since police have largely moved over to encrypted trunked radios.

Not to mention that possessing a police scanner while committing a crime is a crime itself.

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