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”

https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

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  • mosiacmango
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    2 months ago

    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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      2 months ago

      Also because boy racers and other assorted scrotes would listen in.

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        2 months ago

        The pizza boy union filed too many reports about closed roads and having to find another way home