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Bop Spotter: "a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed

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Bop Spotter: “a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below”

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mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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Been a thing for all long time. See police scanners. Unfortunately going the way of the past as cops hide their coms with encryption to be even less accountable.

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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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Also because boy racers and other assorted scrotes would listen in.

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XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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The pizza boy union filed too many reports about closed roads and having to find another way home

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