Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Citizen app relies on police dispatch radio for many of its crime alerts. If the radio traffic is encrypted, it’s likely the ...

Police scanners are going silent thanks to a new rule requiring the communication system be encrypted. The mandate from the federal government means the frequently-used method by media to track down ...

It was police radio traffic on the scanner that drew freelance photojournalist Juan Ruiz to an Encanto home last year, where he captured video footage of an unarmed man being bitten by a police dog ...

Hamilton County and Cincinnati officials are considering blocking access to police radio traffic, a decision that would limit what the public knows about police activity and disrupt apps such as ...