[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 ...

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

Of course, old-fashioned scanners were often used to listen to police and fire radios. Those have all gone trunked these days. This isn’t a new idea, but it did seem like a well-packaged solution.