It was police radio traffic on the scanner that drew freelance photojournalist Juan Ruiz to an Encanto home last year, where he captured video footage of an unarmed man being bitten by a police dog ...

Scanner Radio is an Android app that lets you listen to live police radio, fire radio, and weather radio as well as amateur radio streams from around the world. There are over 2,000 channels available ...

For decades, police radio communications were one of the few ways the public and the press could independently understand what was happening in their communities in real time. Journalists relied on ...

(WHTM) — It will soon be more difficult to monitor police activity for those with scanners in one Midstate county. Dauphin County announced plans to encrypt all police radio transmissions on Wednesday ...

Minneapolis police will go silent on radio scanners next week as the department and 911 dispatchers move to encrypted communications. Why it matters: The May 1 move will make it harder to track police ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis will cease public broadcasts of its police radio communications starting in May and shift to online dashboards for the public to track emergency incident responses. In a news ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those in the Peoria area who listen to police radio traffic on their phones or on radio scanners heard silence Tuesday. The silence was due to the planned encryption of the main ...

Boulder’s police radios will no longer be available for curious minds and ears starting Tuesday. Up until now, anyone interested in what the Boulder Police Department was doing could go to a police ...

The Boston Police Department’s decision to digitally encrypt its radio transmissions might not seem like something worth our attention in the Berkshires. Nonetheless, when the head of the New England ...

(TNS) — A popular pastime among neighborhood watchdogs will soon go away in Rochester as local law enforcement agencies transition to encrypted radio communications. Both the Rochester Police ...