D.C. Police Joined by National Guard for Total Shit Show
Ten thousand National Guard members will be joining a stepped-up D.C. police presence over the inauguration, the Washington Post's Inauguration Watch reports. And those police officers are going to be cranky: The force has them all working 12-hour shifts across a 6-day week. One police officer told this writer that his shift would start at 4 a.m. and end by 4 p.m. Is the inauguration gonna pay for all that overtime?
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