Watchdog groups, journalists, advocates for open records, and everyday folks who had regularly tuned in to scanner traffic ...

Why are police radio communications in the U.S. open for the public to hear? Some say this creates a weakness when confronting terrorist attacks, but others say it's important for police transparency.

Photographers in Dakota Santiago’s line of work listen in on police radio, hit the pavement, and report back to editors. Sometimes they document isolated tragedies—a single loss of life that might ...

Disregard any rumors you’ve heard about local law enforcement abandoning police radio 10-codes. Or, as the police would put it, 10-22 on that. The tried-and-true communications system will ...

NYPD 46th Precinct Officer speaks on his Police Radio. Advocates for free media said the upcoming encryptions would allow the NYPD to control the narrative.

At least two firefighters, responding to a brush fire in Idaho's Kootenai County, were killed on Sunday after being ambushed ...

Denver police’s change comes as the department completes a new 911 communications center and distributes new radios to officers. Pazen said the department hopes to switch to encryption in mid ...

Dispatch records show Clarkson sent his call over the radio at 6:52 p.m. Unable to hear a response over their radio, Oleole and Merrill made the decision to block Reinoehl’s vehicle.

They also ran into similar radio congestion and adopted the 10-code used by police departments, but with some colorful additions, like: Bear meant policeman. Super skate was code for "sports car." ...