Minneapolis police to encrypt 911 radio traffic, barring public from monitoring emergency dispatches In effort to adopt new state and federal guidelines, MPD will become Minnesota’s largest law ...

Minneapolis police will go silent on radio scanners next week as the department and 911 dispatchers move to encrypted communications. Why it matters: The May 1 move will make it harder to track police ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis will cease public broadcasts of its police radio communications starting in May and shift to online dashboards for the public to track emergency incident responses. In a news ...