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

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 ...

More than a dozen law enforcement agencies — from Overland Park to Prairie Village — will be encrypting their primary channels so listeners can't hear what police and dispatchers are saying over the ...

American cities are encrypting their emergency radio communications over concerns about safety and privacy. By Ernesto Londoño Ernesto Londoño reported from Indianapolis, where he spent hours ...

(TNS) — A popular pastime among neighborhood watchdogs will soon go away in Rochester as local law enforcement agencies transition to encrypted radio communications. Both the Rochester Police ...

It was police radio traffic on the scanner that drew freelance photojournalist Juan Ruiz to an Encanto home last year, where he captured video footage of an unarmed man being bitten by a police dog ...

The New York City Police Department has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such ...

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 ...

The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The City Council’s proposed legislation to force the Honolulu Police Department to restore limited access to its radio ...