WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:04.140 Hello, and welcome to radio 12. 00:00:04.620 --> 00:00:10.890 This is a brief video training on transcribing. 00:00:11.354 --> 00:00:15.614 And NYP P D scanner information for a protest support. 00:00:16.455 --> 00:00:21.695 If you would like, I like to learn more about anything presented in 00:00:21.695 --> 00:00:26.795 this video or to check out the source material, please visit radio 00:00:26.795 --> 00:00:33.035 twelve.org for this and a couple of other great resources in this work. 00:00:33.855 --> 00:00:39.404 We are a collective who came together during the George Floyd uprisings 00:00:39.434 --> 00:00:42.285 in may, June and July of 2020. 00:00:42.285 --> 00:00:48.735 And this information is based off our experience, um, listening to, 00:00:48.765 --> 00:00:54.035 and, um, communicating police radio information at that time, right. 00:00:56.025 --> 00:00:59.285 Presentation is divided into two sections. 00:00:59.894 --> 00:01:06.554 Uh, how to understand what the police are saying over radios and how to effectively 00:01:06.585 --> 00:01:12.405 communicate it to people on the ground, people doing jail support or whoever else 00:01:12.405 --> 00:01:14.795 you might be looking to ordinate with. 00:01:15.455 --> 00:01:21.125 Um, before I get started, I just do want to note that, um, we are where 00:01:21.125 --> 00:01:25.865 that scanner information is only one piece of a very complex puzzle. 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:30.060 So please keep that in mind, as you're listening to scanners and dispatching 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:35.670 information, uh, an active protest situation is much more complex than 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:37.470 you're going to be hearing over the radio. 00:01:37.470 --> 00:01:41.160 And of course always keep in mind that what you're hearing over the 00:01:41.160 --> 00:01:44.760 radio is the cops, cops lie back. 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:47.010 The police with that said. 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:53.460 Here's some resources for you to familiarize yourself with some 00:01:53.460 --> 00:01:57.869 of the things that you might be hearing come over, um, scanners. 00:01:58.350 --> 00:02:02.490 If you visit radio twelve.org and check out our posts, you'll see 00:02:02.490 --> 00:02:04.500 links to a lot of these resources. 00:02:04.530 --> 00:02:09.389 Some of the things we recommend are a map with the numbers of each precinct. 00:02:09.389 --> 00:02:13.725 You are going to hear that used a lot as, um, Geographical markers. 00:02:14.295 --> 00:02:17.675 Um, there's a jargon in a cheat sheet for cop talk. 00:02:18.185 --> 00:02:24.695 There's a list of the thoroughfare, um, in New York city that you might hear, um, 00:02:24.905 --> 00:02:27.365 use to communicate protester movements. 00:02:27.785 --> 00:02:31.205 And we just like to note as well that, um, many of these there are 00:02:31.205 --> 00:02:33.185 fairs were named after slave holders. 00:02:35.010 --> 00:02:38.540 Some of the common things, things you might hear, um, in terms of code 00:02:38.540 --> 00:02:43.040 coming over the radio, uh, ten four means I heard you, um, you might 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:46.220 also hear read R E a D frequently. 00:02:46.910 --> 00:02:48.080 That means the same thing. 00:02:48.110 --> 00:02:50.930 You might also hear red direct. 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:55.520 That means a third, a third party has heard the information 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:57.050 and doesn't need it repeated. 00:02:58.220 --> 00:03:00.270 Those are very common things to hear over the radio. 00:03:00.570 --> 00:03:02.730 Ten five means repeat that. 00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:06.420 It's great for the scanner because very often it's hard to catch these 00:03:06.420 --> 00:03:07.710 things on the first time through. 00:03:07.710 --> 00:03:10.140 So you might need a repeat of it as well. 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.850 Orderly and disorderly are good things to keep your ears out for. 00:03:14.910 --> 00:03:18.255 Um, Disorderly. 00:03:18.255 --> 00:03:23.445 If you hear that come over the radio, um, is definitely something to communicate 00:03:23.445 --> 00:03:25.484 a heads up with anybody on the ground. 00:03:25.515 --> 00:03:31.334 It means they've been declared a target of escalation, a number and 00:03:31.334 --> 00:03:34.125 the word under refers to arrests. 00:03:34.334 --> 00:03:36.524 It does not refer to undercovers. 00:03:36.524 --> 00:03:38.295 You're not going to hear about that on the, on the 00:03:38.295 --> 00:03:39.945 publicly available frequencies. 00:03:40.424 --> 00:03:42.405 Airmail means people are throwing things. 00:03:45.290 --> 00:03:49.369 Groups that you might hear referred to over the radio and a little bit of a 00:03:49.369 --> 00:03:54.200 visual reference for what these correspond to central is the dispatch, the folks 00:03:54.230 --> 00:04:00.769 back in the office, as you see here, aviation helicopters or drowns mobile 00:04:00.769 --> 00:04:04.940 field force, uh, we refer to them as riot cops because that's what they are. 00:04:05.565 --> 00:04:11.835 And the evil SRG or strategic response group pictured over here, Hercules the 00:04:11.835 --> 00:04:19.515 heavily armed counter terrorism unit ways that the police get around and what you 00:04:19.515 --> 00:04:27.855 might hear too referred, uh, over the radio at transport bus P vagabond P wagon 00:04:28.275 --> 00:04:34.605 or bargain and hear German, uh, would mean something that looks like this. 00:04:35.159 --> 00:04:38.940 Very important to keep an ear out for those, because those are always going to, 00:04:39.210 --> 00:04:43.830 I shouldn't say they're always, they're often going to go along with, um, planned 00:04:43.830 --> 00:04:46.800 arrests, uh, in a protest situation. 00:04:47.669 --> 00:04:50.580 Our M P just means a regular old cop car. 00:04:50.580 --> 00:04:51.630 Like the one you see right here. 00:04:55.669 --> 00:04:59.360 It's when you're going to hear over the scanner, if you've been to protests 00:05:00.010 --> 00:05:04.400 in the summer, you've almost certainly seen one of these and heard its effect. 00:05:04.815 --> 00:05:05.985 On your eardrums. 00:05:06.015 --> 00:05:10.935 Um, they are very nasty, raw riot control device. 00:05:10.965 --> 00:05:14.685 Um, so it's good for, um, people to know where these are going to be. 00:05:14.685 --> 00:05:18.015 If you're able to catch that information over the scanners 00:05:18.075 --> 00:05:21.905 because, um, they are not fun. 00:05:25.310 --> 00:05:28.130 Now that you know, a little bit about what you might expect to 00:05:28.130 --> 00:05:29.780 hear coming out of the radios. 00:05:29.780 --> 00:05:35.300 Let's talk about what we've learned about how to most effectively communicate this. 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:37.160 I do want to note as well. 00:05:37.190 --> 00:05:39.170 Um, we're just one collective. 00:05:39.170 --> 00:05:41.270 This is coming from our experience. 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:45.695 Um, What you do is always going to Penn to depend on you, your 00:05:45.695 --> 00:05:47.555 needs and the needs of your group. 00:05:47.555 --> 00:05:52.655 So please apply your, your best judgment and, and do what works best for you. 00:05:54.280 --> 00:05:57.510 Couple of tips on how to filter the information that you're 00:05:57.510 --> 00:06:01.530 going to hear and what might be useful, um, for a protest groups. 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:06.900 Um, it's useful to know how the cops are tracking protest groups 00:06:06.900 --> 00:06:11.640 and what they think the location size and direction of the group are. 00:06:12.420 --> 00:06:17.940 Also useful where cops are reinforcements are being sent, so that protest groups 00:06:17.970 --> 00:06:24.720 can go away from that or toward that maybe depending on what the aims of the protest 00:06:25.080 --> 00:06:30.510 is, anything that you might hear about their tactics plans for arrest blocking 00:06:30.510 --> 00:06:35.460 off movements, paralleling them, say that, you know, parallel them up a different 00:06:35.460 --> 00:06:39.690 Avenue, really useful information for Scouts, marshals, and other people 00:06:39.690 --> 00:06:43.575 who are, um, Thinking strategically about a protest in the moment. 00:06:44.115 --> 00:06:48.195 Um, if you do hear arrests and you hear any, any information about where 00:06:48.195 --> 00:06:53.565 arrested people are being sent, whether that's the bookings in Manhattan or 00:06:53.594 --> 00:07:00.284 Brooklyn or a certain precinct, um, you make a note of that and, uh, try to 00:07:00.284 --> 00:07:04.065 get it to, to jail support or ask, um, if they might need that information. 00:07:05.085 --> 00:07:07.635 Things that might not be useful that you might want to learn to 00:07:07.635 --> 00:07:11.265 filter out would be anything that you're not confident that you heard. 00:07:11.265 --> 00:07:11.685 Right. 00:07:12.045 --> 00:07:20.205 Um, we, as a collective tend toward caution because we were putting 00:07:20.285 --> 00:07:26.435 things out for more public audience without much control over how the 00:07:26.435 --> 00:07:28.505 information would eventually be used. 00:07:28.950 --> 00:07:33.960 If you are in a private group with friends, you know, that's going 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:37.739 to be a little different for you in terms of how that plays out. 00:07:38.190 --> 00:07:43.130 Um, but as you know, protesters, these situations are intense. 00:07:43.159 --> 00:07:46.669 They change fast rumors, start flying very quickly. 00:07:46.669 --> 00:07:51.739 So, um, if, if you're not confident and you think it might escalate a 00:07:51.739 --> 00:07:55.250 situation, be cautious about how you put the information out there. 00:07:56.055 --> 00:07:59.985 Also useful to learn how to, um, filter out protests, unrelated 00:07:59.985 --> 00:08:06.725 activity, um, like, um, a water rescue or, and I'm missing. 00:08:07.505 --> 00:08:09.155 That happens not infrequently. 00:08:09.575 --> 00:08:16.985 Um, just as a, uh, a way of focusing on, um, what your aims are in terms of 00:08:17.405 --> 00:08:19.055 you're listening to the scanner right now. 00:08:20.700 --> 00:08:27.560 Is are not super useful to reports this work, although they are one of the more 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:33.950 emotionally challenging aspects of, of doing it or so many people find EDP 00:08:33.950 --> 00:08:36.950 stands for emotionally disturbed person. 00:08:37.550 --> 00:08:43.039 And it's used by the cops most frequently to refer to people who are 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.040 experiencing homelessness or some type of. 00:08:46.425 --> 00:08:48.405 Crisis of, of mental health. 00:08:48.435 --> 00:08:54.135 So it's a window into the crisis of care in New York city, but it's generally 00:08:54.135 --> 00:08:59.495 not super helpful for protests things. 00:08:59.495 --> 00:09:05.765 You'll hear a lot, um, on the scanners, um, unpleasant sounds, clicking, 00:09:05.795 --> 00:09:09.305 beeping, static, all that type of stuff. 00:09:09.455 --> 00:09:14.465 Um, it's not, it's not fun, but you do learn to, to, to tune it out eventually. 00:09:15.015 --> 00:09:20.655 Uh, the phrase open carrier means as somebody left, um, their radio on and 00:09:20.655 --> 00:09:21.975 they're picking up background noise. 00:09:22.215 --> 00:09:27.165 Um, the dispatcher might frequently remind people to check their radios 00:09:27.165 --> 00:09:32.535 for open carrier, especially in heated protest situation, shots fired, whether 00:09:32.535 --> 00:09:34.515 that be confirmed or unconfirmed. 00:09:34.950 --> 00:09:42.290 Um, you might hear, uh, the aviation up in the air, in the helicopters, tracking 00:09:42.290 --> 00:09:43.880 a group, giving frequent updates. 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:45.380 It's up to you. 00:09:46.040 --> 00:09:50.750 How often you want to provide the updates to, um, your group 00:09:51.170 --> 00:09:56.030 level one, mobilizations are common throughout the boroughs. 00:09:58.790 --> 00:10:03.170 You tweet or otherwise communicate your transcriptions. 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:08.990 These are some of the tips that we have, um, for how you might consider doing. 00:10:08.990 --> 00:10:12.680 So again, all of this is going to be dependent on what you're 00:10:12.680 --> 00:10:14.689 doing and who you're doing it for. 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:21.920 Um, again, keeping in mind that a protest situations are intense and rapid pace. 00:10:22.455 --> 00:10:30.195 Um, we prefer not to escalate, um, those situations by, um, taking a panicked 00:10:30.195 --> 00:10:33.585 or urgent tone in our communications. 00:10:33.990 --> 00:10:39.780 We also prefer not to editorialize, keeping in mind that we are only getting 00:10:39.780 --> 00:10:44.189 one small piece of the story and there might be much more happening on the ground 00:10:44.189 --> 00:10:46.829 than we're able to access with our ears. 00:10:47.280 --> 00:10:51.300 So better just to put the information out and let the people who are 00:10:51.300 --> 00:10:53.100 on the ground do with do with it. 00:10:53.100 --> 00:10:54.449 What's most effective for them. 00:10:55.199 --> 00:10:56.370 Also keeping in mind. 00:10:56.400 --> 00:10:59.490 Um, we are not only hearing one side of the story. 00:10:59.490 --> 00:11:04.829 We are hearing the cops side of the story, um, their language and their 00:11:04.829 --> 00:11:12.540 framing is very pervasive in, um, wider, uh, hegemonic culture in general. 00:11:12.540 --> 00:11:19.319 So in this work, we try to bust out of it a bit, try not to use their jargon, say 00:11:19.349 --> 00:11:22.050 riot cops instead of mobile field force. 00:11:22.439 --> 00:11:27.839 And keep in mind that these are our enemies, who we are listening to on the 00:11:27.839 --> 00:11:30.990 scanners, not our friends, keep it simple. 00:11:30.990 --> 00:11:35.910 People have a lot of information coming at them in any type of protest situation. 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:40.680 The more you can foreground what's necessary, um, intersections, 00:11:41.280 --> 00:11:45.240 locations, numbers, the better. 00:11:48.135 --> 00:11:50.625 In terms of actually doing the work. 00:11:50.655 --> 00:11:56.175 We really benefited from having a collective space where we could log on 00:11:56.175 --> 00:12:02.235 together, get through some of the boring parts together, practice jokes, talk about 00:12:02.595 --> 00:12:08.775 our pets, all these things that, that make, um, all these types of work easier 00:12:08.985 --> 00:12:12.105 also applies to listening to scanners. 00:12:12.839 --> 00:12:15.000 If you can do it in a collective, that's great. 00:12:15.089 --> 00:12:17.730 If not, maybe a buddy, a pair. 00:12:18.150 --> 00:12:22.560 Um, it also means you can double check each other and say, Hey, 00:12:22.560 --> 00:12:24.390 I'm not sure if I heard that. 00:12:24.390 --> 00:12:24.719 Right. 00:12:24.750 --> 00:12:25.709 What did you hear? 00:12:26.010 --> 00:12:29.849 You can also have your ears on multiple streams at the same time and get a 00:12:29.849 --> 00:12:32.040 fuller picture of what's going on. 00:12:32.699 --> 00:12:39.240 Um, working together, uh, also means that you can, it supports 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:41.849 the accuracy of your information. 00:12:42.330 --> 00:12:48.510 Um, and again, especially if it's related to, uh, escalation by the 00:12:48.510 --> 00:12:53.730 police, we believe it's important to be as accurate as possible. 00:12:53.790 --> 00:12:58.410 Um, given the demands of an urgent situation, um, before you communicate 00:12:58.410 --> 00:13:05.880 your information, thank you for, um, watching this video tutorial and 00:13:05.880 --> 00:13:12.075 for your interest in supporting, um, People's movements against the police 00:13:12.105 --> 00:13:16.545 in New York city as an ending notes. 00:13:16.575 --> 00:13:23.505 Um, we will note that there are tools available on radio twelve.org. 00:13:23.535 --> 00:13:31.455 In addition to, um, uh, this video tutorial, there's also a tutorial about 00:13:31.785 --> 00:13:40.064 how to use an interactive map to, um, Communicate, uh, police activity and a 00:13:40.064 --> 00:13:41.865 couple of other things are coming soon. 00:13:41.865 --> 00:13:50.235 So please visit, uh, radio twelve.org and find us on Twitter at NYP D police radio. 00:13:50.805 --> 00:13:52.245 Uh, you can DM us there. 00:13:52.245 --> 00:13:55.965 If you have questions you need help or you have feedback on 00:13:55.965 --> 00:13:58.365 any part of our presentation. 00:13:58.965 --> 00:14:03.405 Um, we keep us safe, but the police see in the streets.