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WASHINGTON – More than 70 Capitol Police officers have left the force since the Jan. 6 riot, a union leader said Friday.
Gus Papathanasiou, chairman of the Capitol Police Labor Committee, said the resignations and retirements reflect low morale on the force after the deadly attack that injured 140 officers. Overall, the department is operating with 233 vacancies below its 2,070 authorized full-time positions, he said. What keeps me up at night is not the challenge of hiring and training more officers, but keeping the officers we have right now, Papathanasiou said.
Officer Brian Sicknick, who was sprayed with a chemical spray during the attack, died the next day from strokes, according the D.C. medical examiner. Capitol Police Officer Howie Liebengood and D.C. Officer Jeffrey Smith died by suicide in the days after the attack.