When Biden says that he wants to fund the police, the only cops he wants to fund are the Capitol Police.
After Jan 6, I wrote that, “Congress’ private cops are the 19th largest police force in the country. It’s a larger force than the police forces of Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver, or Milwaukee with a massive $460 million budget… While Democrats advocated defunding the police, their private police force budget shot up from $375 million in 2016 to $460 million in 2020. After the Capitol Hill riot, expect it to go higher.”
The sky’s the limit.
The $1.5 trillion omnibus bill has a massive boost for the cappies.
The Capitol Police department would get $602.5 million, an increase of $87 million over the 2021 fiscal year level. This would allow the force to hire up to 2,112 sworn officers and 450 civilian employees.
A police force that has its budget go from $375 million to $602 million would be quite noteworthy.
Yes, the LAPD has a nearly $2 billion budget and the NYPD budget is huge, but those forces cover entire cities and millions of people, while the cappies cover… entire blocks.
The Capitol Police are now not only larger than the Baltimore Police Department, they also have a bigger budget despite having a fraction of the crime and territory to cope with.
As I previously noted, the Capitol Police are at 4 cops per congressman.
That would take the Capitol Police up to at least 2,200 sworn officers. And with 535 elected officials in the House and Senate, that’s a ratio of 4 cops for every congressman and woman.
House members had 3,695 staffers (total 6,880 nationwide) and Senate members had 2,342 staffers (total 4,120 nationwide) working in their D.C. offices for a combined 6,037 people.
Between members of Congress and their staffers (not to mention kits, cats, sacks, and wives), that’s over 6,500 people to be protected by 2,200 sworn officers. Or a cop per 3 employees.
The current plan is to bring the cappies up to 2,112 sworn officers. Nice work if you can get it.
somehistory says
All that stuff that they are there to “protect,” sounds very much like mozlum males who get funds for multiple wives, multiple houses, and don’t do a lick of work for any of it.
And, according to Glenn Beck, these “capitol police” are going to be in Florida and some other places.
What business do they have in other States?
Infidel says
Just like during the Trump administration various cities directed their police not to cooperate w/ ICE, similarly, all the red state governors, be it Florida, Texas or wherever – should tell their law enforcement not to cooperate w/ the Capitol Police. Also order the Capitol police to leave immediately, since they are outside their jurisdiction
Reziac says
And, do the math, with annual cost of $236,000 per officer, most of which is paycheck.
Pretty plush job.
gravenimage says
Capitol Police Funding Went From $375,000,000 to $602,000,000
When Biden says that he wants to fund the police, the only cops he wants to fund are the Capitol Police.
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So it seems–this is just nuts.
Will this money be used for training so that Capitol police will no longer shoot unarmed women, as they did with Ashli Babbitt? Don’t bet on it…
Walter Sieruk says
First it should be made clear that when referring to those capitol police it’s best to use that word “police” very loosely when applying it to them because they are really leftist , politically correct appointed thugs , for the most part, who would never equally qualify the background checking and strict requirements to be accepted by a real, genuine police force in the United States.
Those capital “police” are a dishonor and disgrace to all legitimate police officers throughout the United States, both State and county
They have proven by their unprofessional vicious behavior by how they treated the pro-Trump patriots on January 6th 2021.. They have exposed by the awful violent actions that they are really hooligans in uniform and not antithetic police officers. Those leftist appointed “police” have shown by their brutal savage and even murderous actions of malice-filled violence they are more similar to the Communist State police of Red China than actual American police officers.
Second, one example of this is the the most tragic despicable murder of a very good person, Ashli Babbitt, who was also an American patriot by a vicious Black Capitol police officer. To actually call that malicious and murderous man a “police officer” is an actual insult to all decent trustworthy police officers.
Ashil Babbitt along with other pro-Trump patriots was waved , as in welcomed into the Federal building , a setup, that malice filled “officer” shot Ashli dead through a closed door in cold blood. She was non-violent, unarmed and behaving peacefully.
Just think of what a terrible fuss the left wing “news” media would raise if a White police officer shot and killed a Antifa and BLM terrorist who was really up in violence ,as criminal destructive in riots as many of those two Marxist hooligans did in many American cities last year.
All the people of the radical left would carry on terribly about such a deadly shooting of an Antifia and BLM lawless ruffian who was provoking a White police officer. In contrast Ashli Babbitt was not acting in a provoking way.
This politically correct double standard is extremely unfair, unjust and blatantly wrong. This is indeed a “No justice” tragedy. So no longer can America be referred to as a nation “with justice for all.”
In addition, that villain Joe Biden, after he got into the Office of the President then abused the power of that Office to cover-up that vicious cold blood murder of Ashli Babbitt, what an unconscionable thing of Biden to do. Still what else may anyone expect but wicked actions by that evil man.
It was the Antifa thugs who had been bused to Washington DC on January 6th who posed in the Patriot rally as “Trump supporters” who created and incited all that mayhem. That scheme that the Antifa Marxists carried out by infuriating the Patriot rally is what is called “A false flag operation.”
gravenimage says
Certainly the shooting of Ashli Babbitt–an unarmed women shot *in another room* was wrong–she was obviously not a threat at all to the officer in question. This was grossly negligent at best; criminal at worst. That shooting her was deemed justified is just grotesque.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
I have watched the videos, including the video by 27-year-old BLM supporter John Sullivan.
Ashli was clearly unarmed and did not pose a physical threat.
Her “aggressive trespassing” could have been stopped by a simple arrest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kdTtJKeZU
gravenimage says
Agreed, James–I’ve seen the videos. She wasn’t even trying to open the door as was someone nearby. Sickening miscarriage of justice.
And I guess that African-American John Sullivan is also considered “a white supremacist”…
Keys says
Well, drug lords need and pay for lots of protection too! Lots of criminals need extra protection!
Walter Sieruk says
It’s been sadly but terribly truthfully said that No good deed goes unpunished.” In contrast but the opposites must be true which is that “No reprehensible abhorrent action of evil will go unrewarded.”
As observed in this further funding , not for genuine State and local police forces but for those politically correct ,leftist appointed thugs of the Capital :”police” force. they even murder two American patriots on January 6th 2021 one who was unarmed and non-violent in the Capital building and other no-violent patriot was murdered in a nearby tunnel by those so called “police”. another peaceful patriot was savagery beaten by and almost died.
The reader may be sure that this fiendish bogus “president” pretender Biden had his sinister hand in backing and supporting that outrageous and undeserved outlandish further funding to $ 602,000,000. All at the American taxpayers cost , of course.
In addition it should be made known that this despicable fiendish villain who is posing as a real US President ,Joe Biden ,who is so extremely evil that he takes a large part in a heinous cover-up in the blatant murder of Ashli Babbitt, a non-violent ,unarmed peaceful patriot protester who shot and murdered , though a closed door by a US Capital “police officer..” The words “police officer” referring to murderous character, who viciously killed Ashil in cold blood.
After she and other American patriots had actually been waved in that Federal government building by some “Capital police officers” . That was a real, actual “set up” in the most horrendous, wicked insidious kind there could possibly be.
Then Biden after he officially entered the Office of the US Presidency abused that power as a Chief Executive to hide that grisly murder of this young patriot from the public, the ,law courts , and helped get that murderous off with complete impunity.
This among other hideous unconscionable affront by Joe Biden reveals now more than ever before that Biden is not a genuine US President but an actual criminal.