Just two months after the invasion of the U.S. Capitol that left one Capitol Police officer dead and dozens injured, another officer was killed April 2 and a second was injured when a man rammed his car into them.

A task force formed in the wake of the Jan. 6 invasion urged Congress to increase Capitol Police staffing, improve the force's intelligence-gathering, and create mobile fencing.

The task force's report showed that threats against the Capitol and congressional members come increasingly from domestic sources, and that Capitol Police were ill-positioned to respond because of “significant capacity shortfalls, inadequate training, immature processes and an operating culture that is not intelligence-driven.”

It is a stunning list of shortcomings given that their charge is to protect this nation's seat of government.

Today, members of the Capitol Police require top-level training and a sophisticated intelligence operation, as well as detailed plans for levels of response up to and including an actual invasion of the grounds by hostile forces.

A separate, preliminary report by the U.S. Capitol Police's inspector general also called out intelligence failures and an unconscionable lack of planning before Jan. 6. Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton found in his review that the force “did not prepare a comprehensive, Departmentwide plan for Jan. 6 demonstrations.” Bolton also took the department to task for its failure to communicate information from the FBI that warned of potential violence.

Capitol Police leaders have said that they faced “internal challenges, including communication issues and inadequate training, which the department is correcting.” That's important, but they also stated that short of excessive use of deadly force, nothing within its arsenal on Jan. 6 would have stopped the violent insurrectionists. That is not credible, nor is it an acceptable conclusion.

It is clear that changes must be made. The Capitol Police force is the only full-service, federal law enforcement agency appointed by Congress. It is answerable to a three-member Capitol Police Board made up of the House Sergeant at Arms, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Architect of the Capitol. That is an archaic structure that may well need to change.

On Jan. 6, the Capitol Police chief was frantically trying to reach the Sergeants at Arms for access to National Guard units, but they were busy protecting members of Congress.

A report due to be released in early May is expected to make recommendations on additional security measures, staffing, intelligence-gathering and coordination and the structure of the police board, said Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is co-leading an investigation.

“The brave men and women of the Capitol Police who put their lives on the line every day deserve to know that we have their backs and that they have the resources they need,” she said, adding that the death of officer William Evans last week is “another reminder of that.”

Evans, 41, will lie in honor in the Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, only the sixth Capitol officer in the nation's history to die in the line of duty.