To make a long story short, any agency who provides public safety communications owes it to their public to secure their sites. Accountability is everything; you have to know who has access, when they come and go from the site, and what they did while they were there.
That said, I'm a ham and also am a technician for a fairly large public safety entity. As a ham, I like to think that we're pretty much like any other segment of society: Mainly comprised of decent, reasonable and caring individuals, but also containing some marginal personalities and a very few downright bad people. What I've seen professionally, and this is unfortunate, is that nobody remembers the hundreds well behaved and polite hams we encounter over the years, but stories about the guy who came in making threats and demanding this or that become legendary!
