Brothers and Sisters,
2015 was both an unusual year and a very average year for us. We had a budget increase but a paltry one.
We got to prepare to watch as the National Park Service squanders MILLIONS of dollars on a birthday party while we drive cars that should be condemned,
a radio system that belongs in a museum and a lack of man power on the street. We lost a few members to that seemingly unforeseeable thing
called “retirement” and we lost quite a few more to that thing called ‘better paying jobs in better funded agencies”. These are all both common and
unusual occurrences for the United States Park Police.
As 2016 is upon us, let us look forward to a year of ‘more of the same’.
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