'As crime rises, so do the threats against our public servants,' said U.S. Postmaster General and USPS Chief Executive Officer Louis DeJoy.
announcing a renewed focus on the fentanyl epidemic and synthetic drug crisis, as part of a larger lens on the distribution and disruption of narcotics rings in association with local and statewide officials and law enforcement partners.
Mary Fan, a criminal justice expert and professor at the University of Washington School of Law, toldvia phone that in a number of major U.S. cities, there was a regression back to the mean compared to the time during the pandemic. "With respect to a number of other initiatives that the mayor has pursued, I think he's doing a mix of responses and the mix of responses is something we're seeing in other jurisdictions as well," Fan said."Voters are debating in other jurisdictions whether it is his measures to address the challenges that the unhoused population is facing in a very expensive city. This is something we're seeing played out in other very expensive cities with large unhoused populations.
The agency also reported an increase in high-volume theft incidents from mail receptacles, including blue collection boxes. There were 38,500 such incidents in the 2022 fiscal year and more than 25,000 already this fiscal year. "We are currently not providing much more information [than what] is in our press release," USPS spokesperson Albert Ruiz toldvia email on Tuesday."I can say that the new boxes are currently being deployed in high security risk areas throughout the country, but I'm not able to provide specific locations, photos, or how the new locks work for security reasons."
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