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Winter 2023 Updated | POAM

A Hockey Game to Remember

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by Dan Kuhn It all started one day while I was talking on the phone to a resident of Arenac County named Kathy Wilk. I met Kathy during the “Sheriff Bouldin Must Go” campaign that the Police Offic...
Winter 2023 Updated | POAM

Change. Can You Handle Change?

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by Kenneth E. Grabowski I sure hope the Democrats in control of our country know what they are doing, because they are taking us in a direction that this country has never experienced. This direction ...
Winter 2023 Updated | POAM

Gutscher Prevails for Retirees

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By Ed Jacques, LEJ Editor Over the last few years, one of the most frequent topics surrounding incoming calls to the POAM office involve retiree health care. Typically the comments are, “nobody info...
Winter 2023 Updated | POAM

Tasers Getting a Bad Rap

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By Barry Sherman As we enter the 21st century era of policing, department after department is being equipped with probably the most important tool ever developed to reduce injury to officers and to th...
Winter 2023 Updated | POAM

Real Life Technology Assists CSI Units

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The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) processes over 25,000 crime scenes annually. In fact, in 2007 alone the Photo Lab acquired and archived over 1 million digital photographs from fie...
Winter 2023 Updated | POAM

The Right to Carry Handguns

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Forty states, comprising the majority of the American population, are “right-to-carry” states. Statistics show that in these states the crime rate fell (or did not rise) after the right-to...
Winter 2023 Updated | POAM

Federal Perspective Part 1

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By Dennis McGrann, POAM Lobbyist, Washington, D.C. Lawmakers are rushing to pass legislation during the few remaining weeks of session before the 110th Congress adjourns in September. Major questions ...