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

[RandySF]

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.



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

[spanone]

1. K&R

[former9thward]

2. No one can watch 1800 cameras continuously 24/7.

[RandySF]

5. I just figured the speaker's residence would be a higher priority.

[former9thward]

6. It may be but they are 3000 miles away.

One armed security guard would have stopped this attack. No cameras needed for that.

[LT Barclay]

10. Just a question, there isn't any form of AI that could do that?

It would seem that even the most basic would be able to cue someone to a person entering through a window?

Or

Maybe it's time all those snoops at the NSA repurpose themselves to something useful?

[uponit7771]

11. Of course not, there should be automation from last millennium that would be set off

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. How many people are monitoring those 1,800 cameras?

I’ll bet there’s like 20 people max watching all that. It would be quite easy to get lost in the shuffle.

[niyad]

4. hey, wapo, Speaker (title), not "speaker" (noun).

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Capitalized only before a name.

[FakeNoose]

8. Hey Capitol Police! Please release this video

... so the media can tell the Repukes to STFU already.

Enough of this BS about Paul Pelosi having a gay-tryst with the guy. It's complete hogwash and the video proves it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. Cops don't keep people safe.