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 ...

For more than 25 years, a technology used for critical data and voice radio communications around the world has been shrouded in secrecy to prevent anyone from closely scrutinizing its security ...

The silence is deafening. And it’s going to get louder. The NYPD began encrypting its radio transmissions on Staten Island in February. That means that members of the media and the public no longer ...

For the first time since implementing radio technology in the early 20th century, the San Francisco Police Department has begun encrypting practically all of its radio transmissions, making them ...

Local news reporters pleaded with police officials on Monday to reconsider a planned upgrade to the department’s radio system that would largely eliminate public access — a shift taken in the name of ...

The Berkeley City Council approved a proposal to encrypt the Berkeley Police Department’s radio communications after the item faced backlash from the public at Tuesday’s regular meeting. Other topics ...

The days of knowing what police officers are up to in Chicago are no more, writes Paige Fry in the Chicago Tribune. Instead, the public zones will be broadcast on a 30-minute delay on Broadcastify.

Police departments throughout the Midpeninsula are following in the footsteps of the Palo Alto Police Department, which on Jan. 5 abruptly announced it would immediately encrypt its dispatch radio ...

On the night that a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, a police spokesperson told reporters that Floyd had died after a “medical incident.” It ...

The days of Chicago reporters and news photographers relying on a live, crackling police scanner to chase news and tell the public what officers are doing in real time are quickly coming to an end.