Since August 2020, postal police officers have been off the streets.
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. called for Congress to restore the power of U.S. Postal Service Police officers to patrol the streets to protect letter carriers. Standing with the congressman is Frank N. Albergo, president of the Postal Police Officers Association, and two union members.For 50 years, the U.S. Postal Service has operated its own armed police force, one that is sworn, according to its charter, to protect “employees, infrastructure and customers” and to ensure public trust in the mail.
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. stood in front of the Paterson Post Office to call on Congress to adopt the Postal Police Reform Act, a bill that would restore the power of postal police officers to patrol the streets. “Mr. DeJoy stopped our officers from being able to conduct any patrol outside of the physical locations of the post offices,” Pascrell said. “If that isn’t madness, I don’t know what is.”
“Every day, a letter carrier has a gun stuck in his face in America. That is not an exaggeration,” said Albergo, who is the president of the Postal Police Officers Association. “Well, postal police aren’t doing anything about it. We’re protecting buildings. We’re not protecting postal workers.”
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