[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands ... using some support programs including the Digital Speech Decoder which turns the data ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Did a recent switch from old-school analog to encrypted digital police ... for police scanners. "Send an ambulance, I'm hit!" an officer said in a garbled radio call after being ...

A new push could take the ability to hear dispatch scanners away. Some agencies are saying it's to protect the public, while ...

Some commenters on Facebook shared that they grew up listening to the scanner calls. "Grandma and I would listen to it like it was a radio show!" one person wrote. Another questioned why the public ...