| NJ5 said: How well does the secret service really protect the president? For example, imagine the president is going to make a speech outdoors. Does the secret service check and protect every single window and roof from which a shot can be taken at the pulpit?
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Have you ever seen Vantage Point? Security isn't too much different from that.
If the President gives a speech, they typically evacuate every building with a clear view of the President, then keep an eye on those buildings. There are always ways to sneak around it, though. This is a big reason why they prefer to do indoor speeches. Security is easier.
When the President is to go to the location of the speech, the select a place that has a number of possible routes from the White House or airport (depending on where they're going), and they send the President with a police escort that usually consists of 50+ police cruisers. They'll usually pick a route that's easily changed should there be any suspicions.
I've seen it. I was driving down the highway once a few years ago, when I saw a couple police cruisers come around the bend with their lights flashing. Then a couple more. Then some more. Then a whole mess of them, three huge tour buses (two are probably decoys), and about twenty cruisers trailing. It was a spectacle.
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