Seeing the red lights flashing behind you while driving on the highway can immediately make your heart sink, so it's no surprise that a lot of drivers are using police scanners to detect nearby police ...

Not long ago every newsroom had a police scanner. I’m not talking about the days when ashtrays overflowed with cigarette ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Beginning on January 23, 2024, the following Johnson County police agencies will begin full encryption of their radio ...

The NYPD is set to fully encrypt its radio broadcasts by the end of next year as part of a nearly $400 million planned system upgrade — setting off alarm among local politicians and press advocates.

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 ...

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 ...

Listening to Boston police radio transmissions over old-school scanner equipment will soon yield nothing but dead air. The Boston Police Department said Wednesday that it will convert its analog radio ...

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 ...

"Beginning on January 23, 2024, the following Johnson County police agencies will begin full encryption of their radio communications." So began a media release sent out on Dec. 21, the Thursday ...