In 2014, a mentally unstable man jumped over the White House fence, overpowered an armed female Secret Service agent, and made it to the East Room before an off-duty agent about to leave for the night finally took him down.

The 2014 incident led to the resignation of the Secret Service’s first female director who had emphasized diversity over effectiveness.

A year earlier, Barack Obama had appointed Julia Pierson and the move had been hailed as a milestone for diversity that would “change the culture” of the excessively male organization. Pierson launched diversity initiatives to recruit and promote women and minority personnel.