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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seeing the red lights flashing behind you while driving on the highway can immediately make your heart sink, so it's no surprise that a lot of drivers are using police scanners to detect nearby police ...

American cities are encrypting their emergency radio communications over concerns about safety and privacy. By Ernesto Londoño Ernesto Londoño reported from Indianapolis, where he spent hours ...

If you are in crisis, you can reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling 988. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — When Lisa Judi isn’t working her full-time job, she spends her time listening to local ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It could be considered an honest mistake when someone who is listening to police scanner traffic posts some of that information on social media. After all, the information is ...

Every time she left her house over the past three years, Christina Smith would check Facebook to see if it’s safe where she’s headed. While she was out, she’d check Facebook to see if there’s any ...