The distance between the police and public is literally widening. So is the accountability gap.

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: July 26, 2026

Words: 2,359

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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Not long ago every newsroom had a police scanner.

I’m not talking about the days when ashtrays overflowed with cigarette butts and a bottle of scotch was kept in a desk drawer to toast special occasions. Like Thursday. But sometime between the pandemic and now, everything changed.

Reporters used to work with the damned thing squawking in the background because they knew that all of the important breaking news stories would come across that …

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