The days of eavesdropping on the New York Police Department may be coming to an end. The NYPD says it wants to reimagine its current police communication system and transition to encrypted messages by ...

So began a media release sent out on Dec. 21, the Thursday before the Christmas holiday weekend. It’s safe to say that not a lot of people saw the initial release. And those who did might not have ...

When was the last time you saw a trucker pulled over for speeding? The question never occurred to me until the summer of 2003, as I was preparing for the Gumball Rally, one of the spiritual ...

The ability for the public and media to listen to police scanner activity may come to an end or be drastically altered when Luzerne County implements a new 911 radio upgrade. County officials plan to ...

On Thursday, police flipped the switch, encrypting more than 2,000 radios in the city. The switch happened around 1 p.m. and police officers could be heard directing their colleagues to switch over to ...

You know there's an iPhone app for just about everything when you stumble upon a piece of software you don't completely understand. An app that got me scratching my head was Scanner 911, a live police ...