CHICAGO — As a little girl in the 1980s, Khalalisa Norris aspired to become a letter carrier. “They can, with a gun, do whatever they want.” Norris, union leaders and criminologists tell Raw Story the solution is simple: The United States Postal Inspection Service — the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service — should use its uniformed postal police …
Amid nonstop grilling by U.S. senators about the nation’s shambolic mail system, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy had jokes. But he emphasized that the Postal Service’s own uniformed police force, known as postal police officers, “protect our facilities where our people are and the mail is” — not on the streets. DeJoy, who maintained the Postal Service has “done a lot …
