Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/capitol-police-cameras-caught-break-in-pelosi-home-no-one-was-watching/
https://archive.ph/aWWPH

Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching
The attack on Paul Pelosi has sparked an urgent conversation about lawmaker security amid increased threats
By Aaron C. Davis, Carol D. Leonnig, Marianna Sotomayor and Paul Kane
November 1, 2022 at 8:17 p.m. EDT

Inside the command center for the U.S. Capitol Police, a handful of officers were going through their routines early Friday morning, cycling through live feeds from the department’s 1,800 cameras used to monitor the nearby Capitol complex as well as some points beyond, when an officer stopped. On a screen showing a darkened street nearly 3,000 miles away, police lights were flashing outside the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), officials say.

The officer in D.C. quickly pulled up additional camera angles from around Pelosi’s home and began to backtrack, watching recordings from the minutes before San Francisco police arrived. There, on camera, was a man with a hammer, breaking a glass panel and entering the speaker’s home, according to three people familiar with how Capitol Police learned of the break-in and who have been briefed on or viewed the video themselves.

The 911 call and the struggle inside the home that followed have led to charges of attempted homicide of the speaker’s husband, and attempted kidnapping of the speaker, who is second in line to the presidency. The incident has also put a spotlight on the immensity — and perhaps the impossibility — of law enforcement’s task to protect the 535 members of Congress at a time of unprecedented numbers of threats against them.

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’s, 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.

[onecaliberal]

1. Shouldn't someone be manning the cameras? WTF?

[Zeitghost]

2. 1800 cameras

24 hours a day when the entire force is

[ecstatic]

15. Then hire 900 new workers

And fire the budget draining leeches like MTG and boebert. I know... I know...

[Zeitghost]

28. Okay

But those 900 extra officers would probably be more effective doing something other than watching camera feeds. Suppose someone had been watching from DC, what would they have done differently than Mr. Pelosi who called local authorities?

[patphil]

3. cycling through live feeds from the department's 1800 cameras.

Catching someone in the act of breaking in sounds like a near impossible task with that many cameras to monitor.

[NullTuples]

22. I do not believe they don't have automated systems to flag suspicious views

The tech has been around for at least 10 years in cheap consumer level systems. A greatly enhanced version was in the commercial system my work put in 8 years ago.

[exboyfil]

4. Number 3 in the Presidential succession

This is unacceptable.

Also please release the footage. I don't see how it would impede an investigation, and it might help a little bit with the tide of disinformation.

[Lochloosa]

9. No. 2

[exboyfil]

12. Yes.

I was counting Biden, but you are correct.

[ffr]

5. Next question. Who was assigned to monitor those cameras and did they leave

their post intentionally, i.e. were they a FG/GOP mole?

[former9thward]

7. No one can monitor 1800 cameras

[NullTuples]

23. Let's say they only have 10 operators. That's 180 per person. Say 10 cameras per site

That's only 18 sites/homes/estates per operator.

Surveillance systems are designed to filter data for the operators. Anything suspicious is identified & that view is brought to the operators' attentions. The tech has been around since the early 2000's and quickly made it's way into consumer devices and commercial systems.

An agency that watches that many cameras does so in a way that is effective or it has no reason to exist.

[SheltieLover]

16. I would've hoped & expected, given her position & all the vile qpuke rhetoric against her,

That her home would have been prioritized. Maybe not 1:1 staff to camera, but someone assigned to watch a handful of feeds.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Are there Capitol Police that want bad to happen?

[NullTuples]

24. Did we learn nothing from J6?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Cops don't keep people safe.

[sanatanadharma]

10. And the RW "glass broken from the inside" spin falls flat

Not that it matters for the truth always lies while lies always truck.

[FakeNoose]

13. This! 👆👆👆 They've got the video to prove it now too

Sadly it wasn't enough to save Paul Pelosi's head from getting bashed. However I hope the Capital Police release this video for the express purpose of telling the Repukes crowd to STFU.

[Traildogbob]

17. And promoted by trump

Inside out. “strange things happening in that house”. My god I hate that asshole and his cult. Never hated anything more. Sick of it consuming me. But take away my SS, Medicare and VA, I will need someone to lock away my tools. Lake and her cackling crowd laughing about MR Pelosi, I wanted to pound my hands into something. Fuck the GQP and RW media. And the billionaires getting us here.

[SergeStorms]

20. The glass in those doors is safety glass.

I imagine the Pelosis had it installed (or it was suggested to them) because of the number of small children in their family. How many here know someone, or have heard of someone, whose children have broken a plate glass window and suffered serious injury?

Safety glass breaks differently than plate glass. As the hammer broke through the window and came back out, hundreds of tiny bits of glass would have been deposited on both sides of the window. There's no mystery as to why there was glass on both sides of the window.

That one of those Qanon dullards didn't realize that doesn't surprise me. 🙄

[Arazi]

11. LIHOP?

I don’t trust these motherfuckers, not one bit. That sobering FBI report on the staggering percentage of secret Trumpers in the law enforcement ranks has made me deeply cynical

[SheltieLover]

14. Sounds like they need a lot more staff.

[onenote]

19. Most DUers have praised the many Capitol Police killed and injured protecting members

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during an insurrection, but other DUers feel fine about generalizing that the Capitol Police wanted Paul Pelosi to be attacked.

[Crowman2009]

25. Some of the capitol police were actively taking part in the J6 attack.

They were even opening the gates.

[onenote]

26. "some' is not the same as a post declaring "Cops don't keep people safe"

Which is why i criticized those who generalized about cops.

[markpkessinger]

27. As a general rule, police don't keep people safe . . .

. . . As the courts have repeatedly held, police have no obligation to protect the public. Sorry, but that's the way it is.

[nakocal]

21. Nancy Pelosi was in Washington so

constant live monitoring was probably not considered necessary.

[twodogsbarking]

29. I heard that is the policy.