“FPS lacks geographic limits on its operations, leaving it to conduct broad investigations untethered from threats to federal infrastructure.”
#GovernmentOverreach #FPS #DHS #ConstellisGroup

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/inside-federal-protective-service-homeland-securitys-domestic-police

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/inside-federal-protective-service-homeland-securitys-domestic-police

In 2020…#FPS oversaw and facilitated a…crackdown on #racialjustice demos in #Portland, #Oregon…invoked FPS’s legal authority to protect federal property, included camouflage-clad #BorderPatrol #specialforces…whisking protesters off the streets into unmarked vans and…creating dossiers on protesters…

…2024 alone, FPS spent ~$1.7B on contract guards, >76% of its budget. #ConstellisGroup…the merger between Triple Canopy and former #Blackwater, holds FPS’s largest contracts…