The Minneapolis Police Department will start using encrypted scanners, meaning news media and members of the public won't be able to listen in real time. Pictured is a file photo of a police scanner ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those in the Peoria area who listen to police radio traffic on their phones or on radio scanners heard silence Tuesday. The silence was due to the planned encryption of the main ...

In October I wrote a piece about monitoring public safety radio in 2020 using police scanners, digital and analog. It’s worth noting that there is still a fair amount of radio communication on the air ...

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 ...