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Six months into Nancy Pelosi’s reign as House Speaker, the newly minted Capitol Police chief expressed concerns about his department’s preparedness, training and aging equipment amid increasingly complex security threats.
“You know, ensuring the preparedness of the officers out in the field is probably my biggest initiative,” then-Chief Steven Sund testified to the Democrat-led House Administration Committee just 18 months before his ill-equipped force was easily overrun by rioters during the Jan. 6, 2021 breach at the Capitol.
Sund’s list of concerns was as succinct as it was candid. “Ensuring that they have got the right equipment, ensuring that they are—the morale is a major issue. But making sure that they are getting the proper training and the proper equipment that they need to do their job,” he told lawmakers at one point during the July 2019 hearings…
