Live incident map
Every active call pinned with department and type. Filter by fire, EMS, or police. Markers clear as units go in-service.
Live map of Phoenix-area fire, EMS, and police activity. Every call transcribed, tagged by agency, and pushed to your browser (and soon, your phone) the moment it breaks.
Every incident shows up on the map the moment dispatch speaks. Historical calls trail behind — searchable by agency, address, or callsign. Every call tagged with the agency that generated it.
Every active call pinned with department and type. Filter by fire, EMS, or police. Markers clear as units go in-service.
Every dispatch, every callsign, every address — instantly queryable. Scroll back hours, days, or search for a cross-street.
Every call comes tagged with the department that generated it. Filter to just the agencies you care about. Toggle call types on and off.
Type an address. We'll tell you which agencies are live, which are partial, and which aren't available — before you sign up, not after.
These are the agencies DARKSTAR is actively covering in Phoenix metro. Coverage expands as demand pulls new sensor sites in — join the waitlist if your city isn't on the list yet.
One person runs DARKSTAR. I listen to this net every day, build the sensors, write the transcriber, answer the email, and pay for the rack space. There is no ticketing system between you and me. If something's wrong, broken, or unclear, I hear from you directly — and you hear back.
I'm not building a VC-funded "police-tech" platform. I'm building the tool I personally wanted. Paid users keep it independent. That's the whole arrangement.
It's the single most-asked question on Phoenix social media. Now you can just look.
// Every call is transcribed automatically and pinned to the map. Searchable enough for situational awareness — not official, not perfect, and never a substitute for 911. Improving every release.
You hear it the way the units hear it — the call going out, not a rewrite of it. Nothing sits in a reporter's queue waiting to be typed up.
One person who monitors this net every single day. Not a VC-funded "police tech" platform. Feedback goes to the person shaping the product.
Your filters, your alerts, your search history — on your account. Never sold, never brokered, never packaged up for a third party. Full stop.
Two active coverage footprints today. New sensor sites come online as demand pulls them in.
Yes. Federal law (18 USC 2511(2)(g)(ii)) specifically exempts reception of radio communications that are readily accessible to the general public — which includes unencrypted public-safety dispatch. Arizona's statutory scheme (ARS 13-3005 prohibits interception; ARS 13-3012 lists exemptions that track the federal exemption for public radio). We monitor only the public, unencrypted layer, never decrypt, and never rebroadcast audio.
Scanner apps stream audio. You listen. If you miss it, it's gone. DARKSTAR transcribes, classifies by agency and type, puts it on a map, and keeps a searchable archive — so you can walk up to it an hour later and still know what happened.
Those rely on user-submitted posts or after-the-fact police-report scraping. We source directly from dispatch, at the moment of dispatch. Different category.
Near-real-time. You typically see the call on the map before a professional newsroom has typed it up.
Some agencies encrypt. We publish the list on this page — clear, partial, encrypted, monitoring gap, outside network — and update it as agency posture changes. If a city goes dark after you sign up, you'll hear from us directly.
We'd lose audio for that agency. You'd see it move from Clear to Encrypted on the transparency grid on this page, and active subscribers get an in-app notice. The rest of the network — fire, EMS, mutual aid, surrounding agencies — keeps working.
No. We operate the sensor network. You use the app.
No. Push alerts only — visual check at a stop. Do not read transcripts behind the wheel. Also the law.
They're tunable. Filter by agency, call type, and severity. Quiet hours supported. Default settings err toward signal-over-noise.
Phoenix metro and northern Arizona today. Coverage expands with each new sensor site — waitlist demand is what pulls the next one in. See the transparency grid above for exact status per agency.
Browser push notifications today (desktop + mobile web). Native iOS and Android apps ship after launch. Email digest option for quiet-hours users.
One operator. Based in Phoenix. Listens to this net every day. Paid users keep it independent — no outside funding, no VC, no 'growth team.'
No. Explicitly not. We will never build features for law enforcement, never partner with ICE or DHS, and never participate in operational policing work. DARKSTAR is a public-awareness tool for residents, property owners, journalists, and businesses.
No. Your filters, alerts, and search history stay on your account. Ever.
Searches are scoped to your account, stored only for your own history, and never enriched, shared, or sold. Delete your account and they're gone.
One-click cancel. One-click account deletion. Full data export on request. No retention games.
DARKSTAR is a paid, direct-source public-safety feed. It is not a crime-alert social app, not a hobbyist scanner, not a news aggregator. Here's how those categories differ — without naming names.