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Professional Investigators Day – Debunking Myths - AFI-LLC Newsletter July 2021

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THIS MONTH’S COMMENTARY – PROFESSIONAL INVESTIGATORS DAY – DEBUNKING MYTHS
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Since 2014 July 24 has been recognized as Professional Investigators Day in honor of the birthday of Eugene Francois
Vidocq, the very first Private Investigator who founded the first known detective agency in 1833 – and our profession is
a 24/7 adventure.

This year our theme is “Debunking Myths”, but first – some history…
The first Private Investigators Day was recognized in October 1996
by Bob Mackowiak - then publisher and editor of PI Magazine; the
day faded after 2002. Beginning in 2014, in order to make the public
more aware of the important roles that Private Investigators play in
society, Arthur Athas - owner/director of 'Private Investigators Now'
(Melbourne, Australia) approached our agency to help reinvigorate
this effort to recognize professional Private Investigators worldwide
every year. Since that time, and each year, this day has become
more recognized. Thank you Bob Mackowiak for starting this day,
Arthur Ashe for making it international, and all our friends,
colleagues, and clients for growing it every year!

On a side note, PI Magazine has grown to its third owners – Jim Nanos and Nicole Cusanelli, who
took over from Jimmie and Rosemarie Mesis after Bob’s start up. The current issue of PI Magazine
(www.PIMagazine.com) features Bob and ‘PI Magzine – The Beginning’. Take a look! Dean was one
of the first subscribers when founded, and Bob also gave Dean – and many of our friends – their first
opportunities to be contributing writers – and all remain friends to this day! Did you know Bob was
not a “PI”? His profession was in public relations for a medical facility, and seeing there was no
publication for PIs, took it upon himself (and his family) to start the publication which has been a
positive influence for over 30 years!

Back to our theme, “Debunking Myths” – and we want to acknowledge why we chose this theme…
In recent years we have all seen regulations and legislation continued to be enacted based on myths, or bad actors
making truths of those myths and casting a dark shadow on our profession. Professional Investigators play key roles in
our justice system. We thank our friend and colleague in Miami, Marc Hurwitz (Crossroads Investigations –
https://xinvestigations.com) who recently published an excellent article entitled, “Debunked: Common Myths About
Private Investigators” – with his permission we are using it, and adding our own experiences.
-- see below for details and link

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