You’ve got your scanner tuned to the right frequency. Traffic is coming through clearly. And then you hear: “Unit 42, show me 10-8. We’ve got
So you’ve just picked up your first police scanner — or you’re thinking about getting one — and you’re staring at a dial (or a
Listen to a police scanner for more than a few minutes and you’ll hear a jumble of numbers: “10-4,” “11-99,” “we’ve got a 459 in
“10-4” is the one police code almost everyone knows. It’s turned up in films, in trucker slang, in casual conversation, and in a thousand cop
Florida sounds different on the radio. Where most of the country built its police shorthand around ten-codes, Florida agencies talk in signals — “Signal 4,”
Most police codes are strictly practical — a plate check, a location request, a traffic stop. 10-42 starts out that way too, meaning simply that