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

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

The author's now largely useless police scanner. (Photo by Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector)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 …