Standing up for your rights is dangerous, and now that cities around the U.S. are implementing early curfews with violent enforcement, it’s useful to arm yourself with as much knowledge as you can. At ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Nov. 13, law enforcement radio and police scanners will go dark in Sioux Falls and Minnehaha County, as well as in Rapid City ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago officials are moving to block members of the public and the media from being able to monitor some police and radio traffic in real time by installing encryption technology.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot is defending the city's decision to start the process of encrypting police radio transmissions, a move that will block the public from listening to those ...

Boulder’s police radios will no longer be available for curious minds and ears starting Tuesday. Up until now, anyone interested in what the Boulder Police Department was doing could go to a police ...

The NYPD has begun encrypting scanner radios that the press and the public have used to monitor basic police communications for more than 90 years. While the desire to put such communications on an ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu’s interim police chief is opposing allowing the media to have access to police radio scanners, despite sounding open to it last month. Newly appointed interim Chief ...

Across the United States, more and more police departments are choosing to silence radio scanners, preventing citizens from monitoring crime in their communities. This wave has made its way to New ...

In most newsrooms, a scanner that picks up on local police and fire communications provides a constant stream of background noise that often prompts reporters to leap into action when they hear ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — After switching to encrypted transmission this month, the Virginia Beach Police Department scanners are quiet, leaving thousands of scanner hobbyists without their beloved ...

Law enforcement communications will be encrypted, keeping to-the-second updates about police whereabouts and breaking news situations private and off of public police scanners in a move law ...