More spectrum for first responders?

Over at TIME.com, I write about the recent compromise on the D Block, which would give more spectrum to public safety, and I ponder if there may not be a better way..

Patrol cars are as indispensable to police as radio communications. Yet when we provision cars to police, we don't give them steel, glass and rubber and expect them to build their own. So why do we do that with radio communications?

Read the whole thing here.