{"id":1722762,"date":"2022-11-03T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T10:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722762"},"modified":"2022-11-03T08:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:34:36","slug":"wapo-wonders-why-did-the-capitol-police-completely-screw-up-pelosis-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-wonders-why-did-the-capitol-police-completely-screw-up-pelosis-security\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Wonders: Why Did the Capitol Police Completely Screw Up Pelosi\u2019s Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapo-wonders-why-did-the-capitol-police-completely-screw-up-pelosis-security%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0b16249d-24e8-4021-a8ee-266928ffcf99-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>How did an intruder make his way undetected to the home of the House speaker long enough to break into it and attack her husband? The Capitol police provide security for Congress and especially for its leadership, including Nancy Pelosi\u2019s home, which is covered by real-time, 24\/7 surveillance. And in this case, the CPD\u2019s cameras actually caught the intruder coming onto the property and breaking into the house.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s the case, though, why did Paul Pelosi have to call 911? Someone was asleep at the switch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/01\/capitol-police-cameras-caught-break-in-pelosi-home-no-one-was-watching\/?utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=wp_main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Washington Post reports<\/a> this morning \u2014 while trying to shift blame for the failure:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If the Capitol Police were going to stop an attack at the home of any member of Congress, they had perhaps the best chance to do so at Pelosi\u2019s, according to several current and former law enforcement officials, many of whom spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because the break-in remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitol Police first installed cameras around Pelosi\u2019s home more than eight years ago; she has an around-the-clock security detail; and for many months after the attacks of Jan. 6, 2021, a San Francisco police cruiser sat outside her home day and night. But hours after Pelosi left San Francisco last week and returned to D.C., much of the security left with her, and officers in Washington stopped continuously monitoring video feeds outside her house.<\/p>\n<p>The targeted security and lack of full-time, active surveillance \u2014 even at the home of the member of Congress with the most death threats \u2014 reflect the competing demands facing local and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as the balances that lawmakers, their families and security officials have tried to strike in the nearly two years since the attack on the Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the first notice of something amiss at the Pelosi house picked up by surveillance is when they saw police lights flashing on the cameras. They had to roll back the video to discover that the assailant could be clearly seen on their cameras approaching and then breaking into the Pelosis\u2019 home.\u00a0<em>Oof<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Post uses this as a springboard mainly to tie the attack and the failure to a massive wave of threats connected to the riot on January 6, 2021. Capitol Police didn\u2019t install surveillance cameras and live monitoring last year, however, as the excerpt notes. They didn\u2019t get installed after Trump took office either, or even when Trump started campaigning, even though the WaPo\u2019s story mentions Trump <em>six times<\/em> in the course of the article. (Steven Scalise only gets one mention despite being nearly killed by an explicitly political sniper attack on House Republicans in 2017.) \u201cMore than eight years ago\u201d would have been before the fall of 2014, and that precedes the rise of \u201cMAGA,\u201d and it\u2019s also long after Nancy Pelosi first became Speaker, for that matter (2007).<\/p>\n<p>The security needs of the Pelosis are real and understandable. The\u00a0<em>performance<\/em> of that security, however, is questionable at best. Having spent nearly twenty years in the alarm-monitoring industry, I can assure you that live video security monitoring is costly and people-intensive. That doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t work, but it does mean you have to commit enough resources to it to make it effective. And this failure makes it look like the Capitol Police hasn\u2019t done that at scale, at least in this instance.<\/p>\n<p>The Post thinks so too, but it tries to explain away the failure of this very expensive security set-up as a result of the massive expansion of threat-tracking the Capitol Police have on their hands. That, however, is a resource issue \u2014 and it\u2019s entirely Congress\u2019 responsibility. Security companies have to scale up as they add customers, and the Capitol Police should have been doing so as well. So why didn\u2019t they?\u00a0 The Capitol Police work for Congress, and Congress provides those resources. Furthermore, Congress is responsible for their performance. If the demand for security has increased that much, why hasn\u2019t Congress responded with more resources and a demand for better performance?<\/p>\n<p>The Post even gets close to the right answer here:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the months after Jan. 6, 2021, House Democrats repeatedly reminded leaders that their campaign coffers were not enough to pay for personal security or upgrades to their homes. Congress has, in turn, approved increases to office budgets for individual lawmakers \u2014 allowing them to pay for private security to assist them at events back home \u2014 and set aside nearly $5 million in a separate fund to allow for security upgrades to their personal residences.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well \u2026 who\u2019s been running Congress for the last 22 months? Democrats. Who runs the House of Representatives? Nancy Pelosi and her two-decade-long leadership clique. \u201cCongress\u201d in this instance seems like a passive way of saying \u201cfellow Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not forget that this is the same Congress and Democrat leadership that spent $1.9 trillion on an unnecessary and inflationary stimulus bill less than two months after the riot, pushed another $5 trillion \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d proposal for months, and spent $1.2 trillion on infrastructure and another $800 billion on climate change in this session \u2014 all\u00a0<em>off-budget<\/em>, mind you. So Democrats have no problem spending trillions on their political hobby horses.\u00a0They certainly could have chosen to spend a few million on expanding their own Capitol Police force and financing more personal security.<\/p>\n<p>But they didn\u2019t, even with a ballooning threat environment that the Post describes. Why?\u00a0 Could it be that an animus within the Democrat Party toward policing has had something to do with resource issues for its own police force? Or has Congress simply cheaped out and acted irresponsibly about resources out of incompetence? I\u2019d <em>looove<\/em> to hear from the Capitol Police on that point.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/01\/capitol-police-chief-pushes-for-more-resources-after-paul-pelosi-assault-00064437\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we already have<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger on Tuesday issued a rare public call for more resources to protect lawmakers following the assault of Paul Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe today\u2019s political climate calls for more resources to provide additional layers of physical security for Members of Congress,\u201d Manger said in a lengthy statement that also confirms the department\u2019s plans for a review of the home invasion at Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s San Francisco residence.\u201cThis plan would include an emphasis on adding redundancies to the measures that are already in place for Congressional leadership,\u201d Manger added. He declined to disclose further details about the improvements, citing the risk posed by \u201cbad actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe just adding more personnel in the monitoring station would be a good start \u2014 along with some better triggers to alert on motion on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, this failure isn\u2019t on the people who rioted on January 6, nor on the tens of millions of regular people who support Trump, or Bernie Sanders, or whomever. The primary responsibility is on the nutcase perp, but after that, the failure of the Capitol Police is on the Capitol Police \u2014 and the leadership of Congress that runs them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did an intruder make his way undetected to the home of the House speaker long enough to break into it and attack her husband? 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