Boston Protest Scanner Resources
To save myself some time I'm going to aggregate some of the Boston area scanner feeds that can be used to listen to police operations during protests in Boston. All of the Broadcastify feeds can be listened to on mobile using one of the many available scanner apps or the official Broadcastify app.
Full disclosure: I run two of these feeds and will note which ones.
Last updated 4/21/21.
Boston Police on Broadcastify (run by me)
All Boston Police District channels plus Citywide and Interagency Operations.
Boston Police Channel 1 on Broadcastify
Feed dedicated to BPD Channel 1, Citywide Events. This channel is sometimes activated during protests and other events.
Boston Police Channel 2 on Broadcastify
Feed dedicated to BPD Channel 2, Downtown/Chastwn/E. Boston (A-1/A-7).
Boston Police Channel 3 on Broadcastify
Feed dedicated to BPD Channel 3, Roxbury/Mattapan (B-2/B-3).
Boston Police Channel 4 on Broadcastify
Feed dedicated to BPD Channel 4, Jamaica Plain/Hyde Pk/W Roxbury/Roslindale /(E-5/E-13/E-18).
Boston Police Channel 5 on Broadcastify
Feed dedicated to BPD Channel 5, Back Bay/South End/Allston/Brighton (D-4/D-14).
Boston Police Channel 6 on Broadcastify
Feed dedicated to BPD Channel 5, S. Boston/Dorchester (C-6/C-11).
BAPERN Area Wide 4 on Broadcastify
Feed dedicated to BAPERN Area Wide 4. This is an interop channel that can be used by any BAPERN agency for wide area coverage. BPD has historically patched in Citywide Events so outside agencies can work with BPD. May not always be BPD.
BAPERN Central on Broadcastify
Feed dedicated to BAPERN Central. This is an interop channel used by BAPERN Central agencies to pass information between them. See https://www.snewiki.com/wiki/index.php/BAPERN for a list of BAPERN Central agencies.
MA State Police - Metro Boston Area on Broadcastify
Dispatch Talkgroups for Troops A and H, and Statewide. Geographically covering from the 495 belt area, into the heart of Boston. No longer includes SOPS.
MA State Police Troop H on Broadcastify
Dispatch Talkgroups for Troop H. See https://www.snewiki.com/wiki/index.php/Massachusetts_State_Police for more information on coverage.
Metro Boston Public Safety on Icecast (run by me)
This is the feed that I run and is effectively a broadcast of my "personal" scanner so the coverage varies on a day to day basis. However during protests/events I scope it to BPD, MSP and sometimes Federal. Contains channels not found on Broadcastify since I self host however it is not super mobile friendly.
Direct m3u link for mobile: http://bostonscan.ddns.net:8000/stream.m3u