Police scanner apps allow you to listen to radio feeds, whether you're a hobbyist interested in police communications or want to learn about local police and crime in your neighborhood. Zeroing in on ...

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 ...

Baltimore’s days of residents and reporters listening to live police radio traffic and monitoring developments in real-time are numbered. Beginning Thursday, the Baltimore Police Department plans to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In a major vote, both portions of the New York State Legislative branch voted in favor of giving journalists access to police radio frequencies after over a year of radio silence ...

The NYPD is spending $390 million on a new radio system that will encrypt officers’ communications — reversing a near-century-old practice of allowing the public and the press to listen to police ...

American cities are encrypting their emergency radio communications over concerns about safety and privacy. By Ernesto Londoño Ernesto Londoño reported from Indianapolis, where he spent hours ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City Council is holding a hearing Monday on the NYPD's planned upgrade to its decades-old radio system. No one disputes the need for an upgrade. What makes this ...

As numerous law enforcement agencies flocked to Minneapolis following the Annunciation Church mass shooting, the city temporarily made its police radio traffic publicly accessible for the first time ...

Moments after D.C. rang in the New Year, an off-duty officer in Fairfax County inadvertently broadcast “audio porn” over police radio, according to the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau. Fairfax ...