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The Louisville Metro Police Department responded to questions and concerns Tuesday about its decision to move to an encrypted communication system that would delay police radio communications broadcast on police scanners.”We don’t want to impede on people having access to information,” LMPD Assistant Chief Paul Humphrey said. “What we want to do is make sure that when people do arrive at our scene, that we can protect them.”The radio transmissions will now be available on an app called Broadcastify and will be delayed by 15 minutes.”This delay is designed to make sure that we can secure a scene, secure people and victims and potential suspects, and have enough time to get resources there to contain things as opposed to preventing access to information,” Humphrey said…
