THREAD: Democrats are now demanding an increase to the Capitol Police force budget. A few things you might not know about the Capitol Police: (1)

Capitol Police already have a $515 million dollar budget. This is more than 10% of the entire budget for the whole Legislative Branch of the US government. (2)

52% of their time is spent on traffic charges, and 14% of their arrests are minor drug arrests. They mostly arrest very poor people in the surrounding DC community (DC also has the largest racial disparity in arrests of any US jurisdiction). (3) https://firstbranchforecast.com/2021/01/06/a-primer-on-the-capitol-police-what-we-know-from-two-years-of-research/

Whatever problems led to the events of January 6, insufficient funding for the Capitol Police is not among them. As usual, monumental failures of police are used by those same police to get more money and military equipment. The cycle goes on. (end)