With a few weeks to go, security for the DNCC doesn’t look good (via Scripting News):

[Here are] some seriously easy ones, that can be verified without mulling around, and can be seen by the layman.

There are jersey barriers in front of the O’Neil building, but none of them are staked down, none of them are connected together, and none of them have interlocking cables of any sort. The same barriers are not installed properly with some of them either teetering across the curb, or or spaced so far apart so as to allow a vehicle to access the front of the building(s).

The temporary communications trailer (Verizon) has been installed right at the edge of the street and is a plywood trailer with a fiberglass/sheet metal shell. Easy to destroy/damage, also easy to take out from a considerable distance with a rifle. I actually walked through the Verizon trailer yesterday (unescorted, and uninvited) and through a fist full of red and black poker chips behind the switching cabinet.

Ditto for the two large HVAC/Gensets at the outer corners of the pavilion. Easy access, easy to sabotage, fully accessible even now (I opened the service panel of both and mulled around for a few minutes before departing).