Communities have seen first-hand what happens when politicians allow and encourage government policing agencies to operate without accountability and transparency.

In recent years, state and local law enforcement agencies around the country have been quietly moving to avoid public scrutiny by restricting public access to their radio communications.

They claim that allowing the public to know their movements via public police channels puts them in danger and impedes their ability to do their jobs enforcing the law.

Of course no one wants to do anything to make a dangerous job even more dangerous. And certainly there are circumstances in which the........

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