Boulder Police Scanner Clips Archive (2024)
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About this archive
This archive preserves selected police, fire, and emergency scanner audio clips recorded in Boulder, Colorado during 2024 prior to the encryption of routine Boulder Police dispatch communications.
The clips included here document a wide range of public-safety incidents and emergency responses occurring throughout Boulder, including violent crimes, medical emergencies, structure fires, vehicle pursuits, disturbances, suspicious incidents, and other major calls for service heard over publicly accessible radio channels at the time.
The purpose of this archive is historical and documentary in nature. These recordings preserve examples of real-time emergency communications that were once routinely available to members of the public, journalists, researchers, and independent observers prior to the loss of public scanner access in October 2025.
Why this archive exists
For many years, publicly accessible scanner traffic provided one of the only real-time windows into day-to-day emergency activity occurring within the Boulder community.
These communications often revealed incidents long before official press releases, public-records disclosures, or media reporting became available. In many cases, scanner traffic also provided important context regarding emergency-response activity that was never formally documented elsewhere in publicly accessible form.
The Boulder Police Department encrypted routine dispatch traffic on October 28, 2025, ending real-time public access to most law-enforcement communications.
As a result, archives such as this now function as historical documentation of a level of public transparency that no longer exists in the same form.
Important notes regarding scanner traffic
Scanner traffic reflects information as it is initially reported to dispatchers and responding personnel during unfolding emergency situations.
As with all real-time emergency communications:
- information may be incomplete,
- details may later change,
- witnesses may be mistaken,
- and early reports may ultimately prove inaccurate.
The clips included here are presented for historical, journalistic, and public-interest documentation purposes.
The existence of a scanner call does not establish that a crime occurred or that any individual committed wrongdoing.
Some clips may contain stressful, emotional, or disturbing emergency communications.
Topics and incidents documented
This archive includes clips involving:
- police responses,
- structure fires,
- medical emergencies,
- overdose responses,
- disturbances,
- suspicious incidents,
- weapons calls,
- vehicle pursuits,
- major emergency-service responses,
- and other notable public-safety activity occurring in Boulder during 2024.
Some entries also include written summaries, contextual notes, timestamps, or follow-up information derived from public records or later reporting.
Related reports and archives
Additional Boulder Public Safety Project reports and historical archives are available through the main reports index.
Related material includes:
- Crime in Boulder — 2025
- Boulder Fires & Arsons
- Fatal Drug Overdoses in Boulder Public Spaces — 2025
- Bicycle Theft Reports
- Scanner transparency and public-records documentation
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