Fifteen law enforcement officers, including one FBI veteran, were charged in the U.S. Capitol riot of Jan. 6 (video below) that tried stop the certification of Electoral College votes in Congress, although the actual numbers of police involved may be more, notes Right Wing Watch:
In the cases resulting from the Jan. 6 insurrection, some members of law enforcement communities may have escaped scrutiny if they took part in the insurrection, while the scrutiny visited upon others may never be known to the public. For instance, in the wake of the siege, 12 members of the Capitol Police force were put on desk duty while the department investigated whether they had assisted the insurrectionists.
However, because the Capitol Police are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the American people may never know the answer to that question. Among the more than 500 people charged with federal crimes by the Department of Justice for their participation in the Capitol breach, Right Wing Watch has been able to identify 15 law enforcement officers—some actively employed by law enforcement entities, and some retired—based on local and national news reports and corresponding charging documents.
They hail from a total of 12 states, and departments as small as the police force of Rocky Mount, Va. (population 4,700) and as large as New York City’s (population 8.2 million). Their crimes range from conspiracy to trespassing, with a number of felonies and misdemeanors in between.
(Source: Right Wing Watch, The New York Times/YouTube)