2 men arrested after shots are fired at officers during chase near school

Yes, I read your post and yes, I was law enforcement in Jefferson County. Perhaps you could listen, some of the radios in the past could, some could not, but you could not communicate with them. I can recall some years back being asked by a county police officer - who was on VHF - to "go to mutual aid" during an emergency in Rubbertown and having to say - sorry, I'm carrying a UHF radio, your mutual aid is a VHF frequency, can't do it .... He could talk to county fire, but could not talk to EMS or me. I could scan it, but I couldn't talk to them directly - now I can. And you do realize communication with the SO (and the small cities they dispatch for) is limited now because of the choices made by the Sheriff, right? Not because of MetroSafe. If you really want to scan their freqs, buy a scanner, it is what I did, so that I don't risk missing anything I need to hear, but less and less do I use that scanner. And soon you will also be able to communicate with public safety in Shelby, Oldham, etc. too, when necessary.

And bottom line, most of the changes had to be made not because of Louisville choice, but because of changes taking place in the FCC - narrowbanding, required P25 compliancy, etc. We were required to go digital by the feds. Agencies not narrowbanded in the next year or so will simply be "turned off." Do you like your MDT in your car? Need radio spectrum for that too, and that all comes with tradeoffs.

There are no perfect systems, since everyone wants everyone to come to THEM - but you simply can't have 1200 people working off one frequency. And that doesn't count the other responders, fire, EMS, etc.