Here's something secretly incredibly fascinating: it turns out there's a recent CBS crime drama, produced and funded by the United States Postal Service, for educating teens. On the special one-off BoCo podcast The Inspectors Inspectors, Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin (co-hosts of Secretly Incredibly Fascinating) recap the first episode of The Inspectors.
You can watch The Inspectors for free on BYUtv.org: https://www.byutv.org/62b6a8fd-f80c-4cd6-8763-f83edc2cff59/the-inspectors-crackin-cards
RESEARCH LINKS:
IMDb page for The Inspectors (2015-2019)
Federal Prosecutions Resulting from U.S. Postal Service Investigations Hit Record Low (Syracuse University TRAC Reports)
The post office arrested Steve Bannon. Yes, the post office can arrest people. (Vox.com)
Fund Targets Victims Scammed Via Western Union (Krebs On Security)
Stamping out crime: Postal Service spends millions on TV show about its crime-fighting inspectors (USA Today)
USPS About Page: "Delivering Protection to Every Address in America" -- this claims USPIS has a (historical) 98% conviction rate.
USPIS Annual Report 2022
USPIS Annual Report 2021
USPIS Annual Report 2018
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