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 ...

For decades, police radio communications were one of the few ways the public and the press could independently understand ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those who follow Peoria Police radio communications can now hear what used to be a scanner frequence through a streaming app, albeit with a delay. A statement from the Peoria ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Those in the Peoria area who listen to police radio traffic on their phones or on radio scanners heard silence Tuesday. The silence was due to the planned encryption of the main ...

In October I wrote a piece about monitoring public safety radio in 2020 using police scanners, digital and analog. It’s worth noting that there is still a fair amount of radio communication on the air ...