The police dispatch on the radio Friday night was a staccato of static, terse orders, and alarm. An officer was down. A ...

[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands. The project, which results in the crystal clear audio reception heard after the break ...

Police scanners are actually legal to own and operate in the United States, because the radio frequencies used by law enforcement, like all U.S. radio frequencies, belong to the public.

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 ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - If you have a police scanner in Longview, you may have noticed it has grown quiet. That’s because Longview Police have secured their broadcast signals, and they can’t be heard ...

Pasadena is not alone. While police departments across the country have been steadily switching to encrypted radio communications for more than a decade, the trend has accelerated recently as cell ...

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No, it had nothing to do with recent ICE operations as some suggested on social media (both Richmond Police Assistant ... in the house and a scanner, so we can't use any radio traffic." ...

On Jan. 5, the Palo Alto Police Department switched all police radio communications to an encrypted ... on information picked up from a police scanner. In an email to local media, the Palo Alto ...