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 ...

Curious about police activity in your area, but don't want to invest in a dedicated police scanner? Try using your Android phone instead. With an Android app called Scanner Radio, you can turn your ...

The number of users of an app which lets people listen in to police radio broadcasts across the country is nearly doubling everyday during the protests, according to its developer. As of Monday ...

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 ...