Are people allowed to have police scanners in thier house?

In NJ, you can also carry them on your person, but not in a vehicle. Looks kind of silly though, having a scanner hanging on your belt. But I've seen it many times. I just laugh.

I hope there legal, i carry mine in my car all the time.

It does kinda worry me when i see a car with 5 antennas and there all hooked up to a CB, or a Scanner, and other things lol

My dad has one...we use it mostly for FD...there's a station down the street from us. We also use it when the police helicopter flys over.

Maybe you should take it away from him for a week as punishment. :) :) Just kidding, of course! He should keep it on. By the time he realizes something is going on in the neighborhood, it's too late. I'd like to hear the initial call go out. Then I know why they are in the neighborhood.

We call our area scanner land. Everyone has one. People usually know that were coming before we get there. We have had to come up with new ways of keeping ahead, especially for officer safety.

whats funny?

You're answer. hell no i am not taking that old mans scanner away. i am not trying to get yelled at.

He's just set in his ways. He's earned it though. God Bless him.

In La they are legal in the house but not a vehicle. They don't do much good in my Parish anyway because our radio system is trunked. It works off of about 32 channels and transmits and recieves on a different on each time. The scanners can't follow a conversation like that so they can't figure out whats going on most of the time. Between that and being dispatched most of our traffic to our laptops, the general public is clueless half the time. Some of the small dept's. and fire dept's. still have scannable frequencies so that keeps them entertained.

Latina, dust that thing off for that Man and let him have some fun!

Yea....I'm still trying to figure out my trunking system on my scanner. Makes no sense to me lol. I have all the inputs, just dont know how to imput them :( :(All Vice complaints, selling, and stuff like that is never said over the air, in the city, they have it all sent to there computers for the reason of dealers having scanners

Ah....I just thought of something else with police scanners. Its illegal to use them to listen to phone conversations.

Our narc and street cimes divisions have incripted channels they work off of. We can't even hear them unless we have the right radio. Yes it is illegal to listen to cell phone conversations here too HOT. I forgot that too. But I used to listen to some very interesting conversations when sitting on all night details. I found out a lot about some people I knew that were, lets say, not quite as upstanding as most people thought they were.

They have the capability of picking up the signal of phones, both land line and cell. Electronic stuff i know nothing about. But I do know that it is illegal to listen to phone conversations on them. OK, watercop9901, I'll admit it, I too listened to some very interesting conversations years ago. I worried all these years, but now I don't worry anymore since our FBI can do it. :)