It doesn’t cost much to break onto a police-scanner channel and curse, spew hateful language or threaten an elected leader as ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OAKLAND — For decades, the public has had the ability to tune into radio channels where Oakland police and other Bay Area law enforcement agencies discuss emergency calls and coordinate responses.

NEW YORK CITY, NY -- All day Sunday, New York City police dispatchers have been broadcasting warnings to patrols to use caution when responding to calls, after several unauthorized transmissions went ...

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 ...

Rochester law enforcement switching to encrypted radio channels, preventing public from listening in Police say the move will protect victim privacy and prevent investigations from being compromised.

For the past several years, Calgary has been the only major Canadian city where police allowed news outlets to keep an ear on their response to criminal activity by letting them listen in on their ...

The multi-million dollar effort to remove public access to police radio communications across the East Bay has a new start date, roughly a month after similar plans were undone by a technology snafu.

More threats broadcast over police radio channel ...