November 3, 2022
THE WATCHERS DON'T WATCH:
Capitol Police cameras caught break-in at Pelosi home, but no one was watching (Aaron C. Davis, Carol D. Leonnig, Marianna Sotomayor and Paul Kane, 11/03/22, Washington Post)
Inside the command center for the US 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, Democrat of California, 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.
Fear of the panopticon is one of the silliest paranoias--and that's a pretty fierce competition...
Posted by Orrin Judd at November 3, 2022 2:50 PM