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How to listen to your neighbors' conversations via a police scanner. Can you break a digital phone's code so you can listen in? Is it against the law in your state -- or is it against the law only if you repeat the conversation? What if you hear a criminal act or the planning of a criminal act? Will you get in trouble for listening? Should you report it?