Baltimore’s days of residents and reporters listening to live police radio traffic, monitoring developments in real-time, are numbered.
Beginning Thursday, the Baltimore Police Department is encrypting its radio traffic and implementing a 15-minute delay on live radio broadcasts available only on the Broadcastify platform, accessible online or via mobile app.
Old scanners will no longer pick up the police radio signal, officials said. Interested listeners will instead have to use Broadcastify, which comes at no cost to the department or to members of the public. A paid premium subscription to the site allows for access to archived radio footage.
