Link: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3626478-violent-threats-against-lawmakers-have-congress-on-edge/
Number of menacing threats against sitting members of Congress has ballooned, forcing the Capitol Police to launch thousands of investigations; prompting a flood of new funding for lawmaker security back home and in Washington; and impelling lawmakers to take remarkable precautions to ensure they don’t become the next target of political violence. Over the past half-decade, the number of threat investigations launched by U.S. Capitol Police has skyrocketed, from 3,939 in 2017 to 9,625 in 2021 The spike in lawmaker threats has coincided with increasingly personal and bitter attack lines stemming from the Trump era