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 ...

Last week's terrorist attacks in Brussels have police in the U.S. reviewing their own preparedness, especially for the threat of multiple, coordinated attacks. One question that often comes up is ...

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 ...

Police radio can sound like an algebra class, with all those 10-4s and 187s. But more and more departments are trying a radical approach: asking officers who need backup or want to report a robbery to ...

After weeks of technical hiccups, nearly every law enforcement agency across the East Bay has now silenced their police radios. Before sunrise Wednesday, all but one Alameda County agency pulled ...

Critics say encryption is an ‘attack on transparency’, and that radio monitoring is one of the few ways to keep track of the police The New York police department (NYPD) is facing serious backlash ...