A rapid-fire, informative update on the legal, economic and operational shifts affecting every police agency and union.
- Wage & Benefit Trends: Highlights from recent settlements and arbitration awards.
- Economic Challenges in Bargaining: How tariffs, inflation, interest rates, and municipal budgets are shaping police agency negotiations.
- Recruitment & Retention Crisis: The national shortage of officers and its bargaining implications. What’s working (and what isn’t).
- AI in the Law Enforcement Workplace: How artificial intelligence is redefining workplace surveillance, discipline, and policy.
- Legal Drug Use & PTSIs: The evolving rules on marijuana, prescription drugs, and post-traumatic stress injuries.
Richard Poulson, Partner, Willig, Williams & Davidson, Pennsylvania and Executive Director, LRIS.