You might want to check and see if your local emergency services has migrated to P25 digital. That would probably narrow your radio choices considerably.
radioreference.com is a great website with databases that will show you the needed info.
I listen to digital scanners daily. I haven't tranmitted on the ham bands in over a decade.
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