Seeing the red lights flashing behind you while driving on the highway can immediately make your heart sink, so it's no ...

The Keep Police Radio Public Act was introduced on Jan. 28, 2025, by six New York elected officials: Karines Reyes, Rodneyse ...

More than a dozen law enforcement agencies — from Overland Park to Prairie Village — will be encrypting their primary channels so listeners can't hear what police and dispatchers are saying over the ...

U.S. smartphone users are downloading police scanner apps in record numbers amid protests taking place across the country in the wake of George Floyd's murder, according to mobile-app data analysis ...

The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on an ...

Police in Oregon are warning that AI apps like CrimeRadar are generating misinformation based on hallucinated police radio ...

The Honolulu City Council passed Bill 46 Wednesday, which would require the Honolulu Police Department to release certain ...

Photographers in Dakota Santiago’s line of work listen in on police radio, hit the pavement, and report back to editors. Sometimes they document isolated tragedies—a single loss of life that might ...

There was a time when it was easy to eavesdrop on police and other service radio networks. Police scanners fans can hear live police, fire, and ambulance calls. However, it isn’t as easy as it used to ...

Law enforcement communications will be encrypted, keeping to-the-second updates about police whereabouts and breaking news situations private and off of public police scanners in a move law ...

Northeast Ohio police departments say the CrimeRadar app is creating panic in their communities by spreading false and ...

Police radio communications have been public ever since the Detroit Police Department began broadcasting one-way transmissions to mobile officers on station KOP in the 1920s. In fact, in those early ...