[Don Joe]

"In an editorial of a nearby small town weekly newspaper, the writer compared the date Sept. 11 to the 911 emergency number, and his last sentence said 10-31 is police code for "crime in progress". Do we have any law enforcement officer freepers that can confirm that code? I've been very uneasy since I read that."

I did a quick web search. Take your pick:

From http://www.grove-ent.com/nasa.html: 10-31 Suspicious person/circumstances

From http://www.911dispatch.com/information/tencode.html : 10-31 crime in progress

From http://www.10-david.com/features/tencodes.asp : 10-31 Pick Up

From http://www.provide.net/~bfield/10codes.html : 10-31 Pick Up

From http://911audio.com/radio_codes/new_york_police_fire_radio_codes_p2.htm :

ROCHESTER POLICE DEPARTMENT CODES AND SIGNALS: 10-31 Robbery In Progress

SUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE RADIO 10-CODES: 10-31 Lost Child

SYRACUSE POLICE DEPARTMENT CODES: 10-31 Subject Has Prior Record

YONKERS FIRE DEPARTMENT TEN CODES: 10-31 High-rise Building Fire

For whole country by state (and then by jurisdiction within state): http://911audio.com/radio_codes/

Note: a few places claim to have "official" or "common" lists, however from the few specific locations I checked, it doesn't look like there are standards, since they seem to vary all over the place.

To run your own web search: http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?q=%28%22ten+codes%22+%7C+%2210+codes%22%29+%26+%2210-31%22&kl=XX&r=&d2=0&d0=&d1=&nbq=50&pg=aq&search=Search

[Don Joe]

Argh, ***WARNING*** -- one of the sites I visited from that search shoved a half-dozen of the nastiest pop-ups onto my desktop, including one named "tracker" something that only appeared as a button, and resisted my efforts to close it. It took several right-click/close operations to get rid of the damn thing. And one of 'em waited several minutes then took over my entire desktop with it's damn spam-page!

There are corners of the web that have gone straight to hell lately...