It has also been ruled repeatedly that police do not have a duty to protect you. There is no requirement that they risk their lives to keep you or anyone else from harm unless they have a "special relationship" with you, meaning you are in their custody. The cops were there to work the metal detectors and direct traffic. There's no way in hell they were going to take a bullet for Trump. That's the Secret Service's job.

Cops aren't trained in operational security. When you have a large event with multiple agencies and groups of people doing different things, then it's easy to blend in if you act like you know what you're doing. You can walk into almost any building if you throw on a high vis vest and carry a ladder. People will hold the door open for you and even let you into high security areas if you are smooth enough.

"Must be a good guy with a gun."

the most interesting thing about all of this is how no one's really outraged at this colossal police failure, like they usually are. it's like "oh.. they dropped the ball on trump's security? oh well shit happens whattayagonnado amirite?"

Yeah, that was shown in Warren v. DC, in 1981.

Perhaps the only reason it's not been attempted is that Trump is the best bet for most enemy foreign governments.

I bet they will be now

I like to think that there's been a regular effort to stay ahead of those who might try things, and often they get thwarted early on and we just don't hear about it. Because if that's not what's been happening for years, and things that do happen are only because of mistakes or blatant removal of the efforts (looking at you, Cheney)...then no one except the few historically acts has bothered to try anything, and that seems really unlikely given how much the rest of the world "loves" us so much.

Hardly a fan of Trump, but he is a former President and due the protection that apparently was not fully engaged. Why it wasn't in place needs to be discovered and fixed. For all sides, this isn't partisan, this is basic security. And if this is broke, what else is?

https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report?path=/GPO/January%206th%20Committee%20Final%20Report%20and%20Supporting%20Materials%20Collection

I'm wondering how you might have missed the whole Congressional Committees report on it.

Thin blue linotmyproblem

I mean, ACAB, but I do relate to not wanting to die for Donald Trump, and preferring texts to hostile in person meetings.

This seems the most likely reason. It is sort of like they teach in first aid. You don't say someone call 911 because everyone thinks someone else will. You need to tell one person directly.

The problem here is that it is not a group of untrained bystanders stumbling upon a surprise emergency. There is supposed to be a pre-established chain of command and group to take these reports and ensure that they are investigated.

Hell, I was part of events where governors made appearances, and the county had their communication command post setup and even gave radios and a briefing to our volunteers at gates and all of the area leads to report anything directly to the command post.

I mean, I wouldn't have stopped him either.