The U.S. Park Police are tasked with a big mandate: to protect monuments and landmarks across our region with fewer than six hundred officers. But the agency has limited resources to accomplish that goal, and critics both inside and outside the force say they're understaffed and facing low morale. We look at the challenges confronting the Park Police.
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U.S. Park Police
Listen Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008 at 12:06 p.m. in Law, Politics
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Guests
Mary Beth Sheridan
Staff Writer, Washington Post
Jim Austin
Chairman, Fraternal Order of Police- U.S. Park Police Labor Committee
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Delegate, U.S. House of Representatives (D-DC)
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