Hi Neighbor,

The only thing keeping you from learning about crimes taking place in or around your neighborhood, accidents tying up the Staten Island Expressway, or just about anything NYPD related, is Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature.

The governor just has to sign a bill sitting on her desk that would require the New York City Police Department to turn its police scanners back on.

The NYPD has kept the public in the dark for the past year on the theory that bad guys listen to police calls and plan their crimes accordingly. A couple of years ago, Mayor Adams and New York City Police Department decided to “encrypt” NYPD police radio calls on Staten Island. We aren’t alone. The rest of the city is shut out, too.

My partner in opinion, Tom Wrobleski, and I have opined about this for a year. I

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