What is an inspector-general?
MANY QUESTIONS raised by the Capitol insurrection on January 6th are political. But one is operational: how could a mob so easily breach the halls of Congress? Last month Americans got some answers from the Capitol Police’s inspector-general, Michael Bolton. His investigation found that communication errors, defective equipment and lapses of judgment hamstrung the agency’s response to the uprising. In one case, officers’ riot shields shattered upon impact because they had not been stored in a climate-controlled room. Were it not for the inspector-general, these details may have never co...
Source: economist.com