Content warning: This article discusses suicide and self-harm. The Postal Inspection Service qualifies all of its crime figures — from burglaries to robberies to homicides, suicides and assaults — by saying in the report, “Though not all of these reports are credible, the Inspection Service takes all reports of violent crime seriously and responds to every reported incident.” Based on …
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 …
The United States Government Accountability Office has released a critical report about the U.S. “Even in cases where there is no physical injury, such incidents can have a negative effect on individual victims as well as the USPS workforce and can result in trauma and stress.” The Government Accountability Office made three formal recommendations for the Chief Postal Inspector involving …
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 …
As United States Postal Service letter carriers face increasing violence and assaults on the job, the police officers who could protect them have been sidelined by the government, a new Raw Story investigation revealed. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, who introduced the Protect our Letter Carriers Act last week, said Raw Story's investigation should urge Congress to turn the bill into law. …
