{"module":"scanner","principle":"Transparency is owed by power; privacy is owed to people. This module publishes what agencies did, and protects who it happened to — including people who never signed up here and have no way to object.","what_this_is_not":"Not scanner audio, and not an AI summary of radio traffic. Every incident is a record an agency published itself, or a neighbor report a moderator approved by hand.","publishing":{"tiers":{"official":"An agency's own published record, or the National Weather Service. Publishes automatically.","report":"A neighbor said so. Held for a moderator; never auto-published.","derived":"Audio-derived or third-party. Held for a moderator; never auto-published."},"auto_publishes":["official"],"never_auto_publishes":["report","derived"]},"always_removed":[{"removes":"Race-and-sex dispatch codes such as w/m or b/f, and everything after them.","replaced_with":"[description withheld]"},{"removes":"Spelled-out descriptions of a person's race and sex.","replaced_with":"[description withheld]"},{"removes":"A race word attached to any word for a person.","replaced_with":"[description withheld]"},{"removes":"Physical build.","replaced_with":"[description withheld]"},{"removes":"Clothing — what somebody was wearing.","replaced_with":"[description withheld]"},{"removes":"Anything the dispatcher labeled a license plate.","replaced_with":"[plate withheld]"},{"removes":"Bare plate-shaped strings.","replaced_with":"[plate withheld]"},{"removes":"Dates of birth.","replaced_with":"[withheld]"},{"removes":"Social security numbers.","replaced_with":"[withheld]"},{"removes":"Telephone numbers.","replaced_with":"[phone withheld]"},{"removes":"Email addresses.","replaced_with":"[email withheld]"},{"removes":"The name of a caller, victim or suspect.","replaced_with":"[name withheld]"}],"no_location_at_all":["Domestic violence — the address is very often where the victim lives.","Sexual offences — publishing where identifies the survivor.","Anything involving a child.","Mental-health and overdose calls — a medical emergency, not a public event."],"no_location_call_types":["17C - Child Abduction","21R - Res Panic Alarm","242 BATTERY DOMESTIC","242 DOM VIOL","242 DOM VIOL J/O","242 DOM VIOL SUSP","242 POSS DOM VIOL","245 DOM VIOL SUSP","245 DOM VIOL SUSP NO","245 POSS AMB SUSP","288 ABUSE INVEST","288 ABUSE SUSP","288 POSS ABUSE J/O","33 - Prostitution","415 JUV GRP W/KNIVES","415 MAN ASSLTG WMN","415 WOMAN","459 ATT BFV SUSP","459 POSS BFV SUSP","46 - CIT","46A - CIT w/Ambulance","46RC - CIT Right Care","484 ATT SUSP","594 CZN HLDG","620 DOM VIOL","620 DOM VIOL R/O","620 FAMILY","620 FAMILY R/O","6X/01 Women's Shelter Dist","904 CPI","904 H & R MISD CPI I","904 T/C","907 AMB ATT SUICIDE","907 ATT SUICIDE","907 POSS AMB ATT SUI","907 POSS ATT SUICIDE","918 POSS FEM","920 CHILD","928 CHILD","930 CHILD","ABDUCTION/CUSTODY DISPUTE DOMESTIC","AGGRAVATED ASSAULT DOMESTIC","AGGRAVATED BATTERY DOMESTIC","AGGRAVATED BURGLARY DOMESTIC","AGGRAVATED RAPE","AMB SUSP","COMED Poss Patient","CRIMINAL DAMAGE DOMESTIC","Crisis Center","DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE","Disorderly Conduct - Family Fight","EXTORTION (THREATS) DOMESTIC","Found - Juvenile","HUMAN TRAFFICKING","INDECENT BEHAVIOR","In Progress Person Life Safety","JUVENILE ATTACHMENT","MEDICAL - NALOXONE","MENTAL CASES/OTHER","MENTAL HEALTH UNIT","MENTAL PATIENT","MISDEMEANOR SEXUAL BATTERY","MISSING JUVENILE","Medic Response- Overdose","OBSCENITY, EXPOSING","OD/POISON - INTENTIONAL OVERDOSE (INTENT TO HARM) / OD WITH ALT MENT STATUS","OD/POISON. - OVERDOSE UNCONSCIOUS","Offenses Against the Family - Custodial Interference","Offenses Against the Family - Other","Other Assaults - No Injury (DV)","PROSTITUTION","Public Assist - Check Welfare","Runaway Juvenile - From Parent or Guardian","SEXUAL BATTERY","SEXUAL OFFENSES","SIMPLE ASSAULT DOMESTIC","SIMPLE BATTERY DOMESTIC","SIMPLE RAPE","SUICIDE ATTEMPT","SUICIDE THREAT","VIOLATION OF PROTECTION ORDER"],"addresses":"Street numbers are rounded down to the hundred block before storage. A dispatch address is often a victim's home.","never_carried":{"on_principle":["Reports that a person seemed out of place, however phrased or misspelt. Unverified by nature, and the most racially loaded category in policing. (A suspicious PACKAGE or FIRE is still carried.)","The dispatch shorthand for the same thing.","Abbreviated suspicious-person codes such as SUSPER.","A caller's interpretation of someone's presence, not an act.","Somebody being somewhere is not an incident.","Police stopping someone who has not been accused of anything. Publishing it publishes that a person was stopped."],"as_noise":["An officer patrolling. Nothing happened.","Movement between stations.","Staffing, not an event.","The agency has flagged it as a bookkeeping entry.","A call logged as advice given; no incident.","LAPD code for a unit being on scene. 1.8M of them in our sample.","Internal radio traffic.","Court administration.","Paperwork on an earlier call.","A misdial or dropped line.","A dropped mobile call.","Not a real event.","Parking.","A scheduled meeting, not an incident.","A transport leg of a call already counted.","A officer-initiated check of an area. Nothing reported.","Problem-oriented policing activity, not a call for service.","A 311 service request — potholes and bins, not incidents.","Placeholder and back-office entries with no incident behind them.","Custody logistics."]},"retention":{"delivery_log_days":45,"note":"Who was told what is kept only as long as the daily alert cap needs it, then deleted.","source_records":"The original feed row is filtered before storage: fields naming a person are dropped and the rest is redacted like anything else.","your_settings":"Your home pin is rounded to about a kilometer before it is stored, and you can delete your settings entirely from The Squelch."},"defaults":"Nothing reaches anybody who has not asked. There is no default subscription and no administrator action that switches a town on.","categories":["Violence","Property crime","Crash & traffic","Fire","Medical","Hazard","Weather","Missing person","Police activity","Other"],"adapters":["arcgis","json","nws","socrata"]}