Oh boy, we’ve got issues, Tom I need a 149 on a possible 504. Yeah, I’m versed in police scanner codes and so is Reese Witherspoon. In her new movie, “Hot Pursuit,” Reese plays an… ...

Police 10-codes came about due to a need for brevity and comprehension on cluttered radio bands and were quickly adopted elsewhere.

Our newsmap can sometimes become muddled with confusing codes; the often times cryptic language comes over the newswire and police scanners with little more information. Today City Room translates ...

Baton Rouge police raided a home in 2013 looking for drugs. They left with a dead body. For years, cops didn’t speak of what happened inside. Then one did.

After reading my piece about Joe Gray and the tragic death of the family he mowed down while allegedly driving drunk in Brooklyn on Aug. 4, more than 70 of Gray’s fellow cops called, wrote or… ...

The city of Chicago moved to settle a major police misconduct case in which it failed to produce a critical disciplinary report.

The Chicago Code may stick to police-procedural formula, but it does have most of the elements needed to make the show at least a moderate success. With better writing and a bit more imagination ...

Code Blue Like police codes, not all hospitals use the same emergency codes, but generally, Code Blue means someone has gone into cardiac arrest.

When law enforcement officials realized officers from different agencies couldn't communicate with each other during emergencies because of different code systems, they pushed officers to use ...