ANALYSIS: For those who wonder why they're not seeing mass arrests at the US Capitol, the situation is ongoing and dangerous. Police, leaders are still talking about the need to clear the Capitol, and assembling the manpower to do that. Mass arrests take a lot of people-power...

Every inch of the Capitol grounds is covered by surveillance cameras. Not only will today's selfies by rioters inside the Capitol be used as evidence in criminal (likely federal) trials, police and prosecutors will have plenty of time, after today's crisis, to sift through...

...photos and videos, to lodge charges. Those from around here will remember the mass arrests in DC, on President Trump's Inauguration Day. Almost all those prosecutions failed, because DC prosecutors had to acknowledge they were unable to prove that the people charged...

...actually broke any laws. Most were just on the street. This is entirely different -- every person who went into the Capitol did it illegally. And, that doesn't even include what they did, once inside. It remains to be seen what charges will be filed, but I think it's safe to..

...say, this (what started as a) rally will result in arrests that will be in DC's (or DC's federal) courthouses for months or years.

End of ANALYSIS.