{"id":584174,"date":"2021-07-06T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=584174"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:51:14","slug":"capitol-police-to-open-offices-in-california-and-florida-to-investigate-threats-to-members-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-police-to-open-offices-in-california-and-florida-to-investigate-threats-to-members-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Police To Open Offices in California and Florida \u2018To Investigate Threats To Members Of Congress\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fcapitol-police-to-open-offices-in-california-and-florida-to-investigate-threats-to-members-of-congress%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=584174&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\/2021\/07\/USCP.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The United States Capitol Police (USCP) released a letter on Tuesday morning announcing \u201cimprovements\u201d the department has made since an unruly mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, including plans to open field offices in California and Florida \u201cto investigate threats to Members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will never forget USCP Officers Brian Sicknick and Howie Liebengood, who died after the attack, nor the sacrifices of the nearly 150 law enforcement officers who were injured,\u201d wrote Acting USCP Chief Yogananda Pittman. \u201cThroughout the last six months, the United States Capitol Police has been working around the clock with our Congressional stakeholders to support our officers, enhance security around the Capitol Complex, and pivot towards an intelligence-based protective agency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USCP officials have said they had no information that the crowd that descended on the Capitol building on January 6 would turn violent. However, Capitol Police were quickly overwhelmed by roughly 800 people who forced their way into the facility as Congress was in the process of certifying the 2020 election results, temporarily disrupting the procedure. The melee resulted in five deaths, several injuries, and approximately $1.5 million in damage to the Capitol building. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/09\/965472049\/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories\">According to NPR<\/a>, \u201cthe government has brought charges against more than 530 individuals\u201d who allegedly participated in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Threats against federal legislators are reportedly on the rise. According to Capitol Police, threats have doubled in 2021 compared to this time last year. In March, Pittman said most of the increased threats are from people who reside outside of Washington D.C. The new field offices are promoted as part of an \u201cenhanced member protection\u201d strategy that seeks to improve lawmakers\u2019 security outside of the National Capital Region. The department plans to establish additional regionals offices \u201cin the near future,\u201d Pittman indicated in the letter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2021-07-06\/u-s-capitol-police-to-open-california-office-following-jan-6-attack\">More details<\/a> from the Los Angeles Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>Other changes, spurred in part by congressional investigations and reports by the department\u2019s internal watchdog, include increased training for officers alongside the National Guard, improved intelligence gathering efforts and protocols for reporting sensitive information, and new equipment and technology for officers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Capitol Police rarely provides information to the public on how the agency operates, citing security concerns and member safety. For example, unlike other government agencies, the internal watchdog\u2019s reports are not publicly available\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Traditionally, plainclothes security details accompany only House and Senate leaders or members who have been subject to a specific threat while they are in the Capitol, in Washington and when they are traveling throughout the country. Capitol Police have jurisdiction to investigate all threats made against a member of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/06\/politics\/six-months-jan-6-capitol-police-radical-restructure\/index.html\">reported<\/a> that \u201cmorale remains low among Capitol Police officers, who say they\u2019re stuck working longer hours amid dwindling ranks.\u201d Union leaders told the outlet that more than 75 officers had left the department since the January 6 breach, at a rate of about three each week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/terrorism-homicide-prosecutors-brought-in-to-try-capitol-riot-defendants-for-crimes-like-trespassing\">Terrorism, Homicide Prosecutors Brought In To Try Capitol Riot Defendants For Crimes Like Trespassing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Capitol Police (USCP) released a letter on Tuesday morning announcing \u201cimprovements\u201d the department has made since an unruly mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, including plans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314100,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/USCP.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Capitol Police To Open Offices in California and Florida \u2018To Investigate Threats To Members Of Congress\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/USCP.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Capitol Police To Open Offices in California and Florida \u2018To Investigate Threats To Members Of Congress\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}