Democrats stunned by briefing on Capitol's security before insurrection: 'It was only by pure dumb luck' more weren't ki

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Scary

According to prepared remarks, Pittman told lawmakers that Capitol Police knew two days before the insurrection that militia and White supremacist groups would be at the Capitol on January 6, and some of those people planned to be armed.
Pittman outlined four things that made the department ill-equipped to respond to the attack: a lack of manpower, not having the right equipment on hand or easily accessible, a lack of consistency in following the process for sealing the building and communication over radios and the public address system being hard to hear during the attack.

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These congressional critters must ask pointed questions about where the Capitol Police Dept's $500M annual budget proceeds ended up … Many large urban police forces don't have that kind of budget, and the Capitol Police have far less area to protect. That's about $1M/congress critter in expenses.