Police scanners have often been the first sign of news that is breaking. But these days, police scanners are going silent.

A mandate from the federal government means police scanners will be encrypted by October. That goal is police safety, ...

For decades, police radio communications were one of the few ways the public and the press could independently understand what was happening in their communities in real time. Journalists relied on ...

BERKELEY — Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio ...

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 ...

EVANSVILLE — After a man allegedly ambushed and killed Evansville firefighter Robert F. Doerr II in 2019, investigators said he monitored police radio chatter using a smartphone app while he made his ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Police scanners are being silenced in Chicago – and while officers say it is for their safety, some say it is actually putting your safety in jeopardy. As CBS 2 Investigator Megan ...

The Emergency Communications Center is pictured on Nov. 3, 2023, on the second floor of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. The days of police business being aired over a “scanner” are nearing ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot is defending the city's decision to start the process of encrypting police radio transmissions, a move that will block the public from listening to those ...