The county's primary law enforcement radio traffic remains unencrypted.

A report of a suspicious person crackled from John Messner’s RadioShack police scanner, one of two he keeps at his home in Knoxville, Tenn. When an officer was heard yelling “Shots fired!” minutes ...

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 ...

As thousands of people across the U.S. protest against police brutality, police-scanner apps have surged in popularity. One such app, 5-0 Radio Police Scanner, shot up the charts to become the most ...

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 ...

In most newsrooms, a scanner that picks up on local police and fire communications provides a constant stream of background noise that often prompts reporters to leap into action when they hear ...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has revealed the city of Chicago’s plan to block live transmissions of Chicago Police Department scanners — restricting access to transmissions that have always been available to ...

As the calendar flips over to 2019, Juneau Police Department officials are hoping they’re one year closer to encrypting their radio traffic. The idea has been in the works for a while, JPD Public ...