With the Springfield police adopting a digital signal for its radio transmissions, some emergency scanners used to listen to public safety broadcasts no longer work. Of the two scanners used at The ...

The Mesa Police Department began encrypting its radio traffic last month, ending the ability of people with radio scanners to hear officers’ chatter. Sensitive, or “hot channels,” used by SWAT and ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The public may no longer be able to listen to Denver police radio communications if the department moves forward with a proposal to encrypt all of its radios ...

Last Friday night, thousands defied New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s curfew order and marched in the rain, the fifth evening in a week marked by beatings and mass arrests ...

The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the ...