Washington, DC —The ranks of Special Agents who handle complex criminal investigations for the National Park Service have fallen by 45% in the past 20 years, according to an NPS memo obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result, Special Agents are now restricted to high-priority violence and major resource crimes and diverted from property, drug, and “crimes against society” in what NPS calls a “streamlined service model.”
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