Poesia [ ] T Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 In the first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in the nation, roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city’s subway system daily, beginning next month, officials said on Friday. Under a tactical plan called Operation Torch, the officers will board trains and patrol platforms, focusing on sites like Pennsylvania Station, Herald Square, Columbus Circle, Rockefeller Center and Times Square in Manhattan, and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Officials said the operation would begin in March. Financing for the program will be funneled to the Police Department and will come from a pool of up to $30 million taken from $153.2 million in new federal transit grants to the state. Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, and Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced the grants at a news conference on Friday at Grand Central Terminal, where Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly outlined his plans to add a layer of security to the city’s 24-hour transit system. Mr. Kelly’s plan to heighten security and monitor a subway system that carries nearly five million people a day along 656 miles of tracks reflects the city’s continuing concerns about a possible attack. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, police patrols increased in the subways, particularly at the entrances to the 16 underwater tunnels. As terrorists have hit rail systems around the world, the police in New York have reacted with strategies tailored to thwart similar attacks. For instance, after the bombings of three trains and a bus in London on July 7, 2005, police officials in New York took steps to protect the city’s subways, including random inspections of train riders’ backpacks and packages, a program that continues today. “New York remains at the top of the terrorist target list, and mass transit remains a concern because it has been targeted many times around the world,” Mr. Kelly said in a statement released by his chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne. “There have been several thwarted plots against New York’s subway system as well.” Each team in the operation will comprise a bomb-sniffing dog and six officers: a dog handler and a sergeant and four officers from the Emergency Service Unit who will be outfitted in heavy, bullet-resistant vests and Kevlar helmets and will carry automatic weapons, either an M-4 rifle or an MP5 submachine gun. The officers will work in shifts of 12 hours to provide as much coverage of the subway system as possible, Mr. Browne said. Officers with high-powered rifles have patrolled sensitive sites above ground in New York, like the Empire State Building, and have guarded subway entrances after attacks in other cities, but have never made daily patrols. . Michael A. L. Balboni, the state’s deputy secretary for public safety, said that since May, National Guardsmen armed with automatic rifles have patrolled the platforms of the PATH train system in New York and in New Jersey. Mr. Balboni said that having heavily armed city officers routinely patrol the subways was an important first step. But more broadly, he said, linking security plans for the disparate rail systems in the metropolitan region was “key in securing additional funding from the Department of Homeland Security.” He said that Mr. Chertoff praised the state for collaborating across geographic regions, since transit systems in New Jersey and Connecticut would also be affected. “Going forward, the New York metropolitan transit system is getting a $50 million increase over last year’s funding for transit security,” Mr. Balboni said. “What we did was pull together eight agencies, three states and a multitude of police agencies to come up with regional funding priorities.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/nyregion/02machinegun.html?ex=1359694800&en=d1c704f39d7c871b&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ape Shit Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways GO USA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricitySucks Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways the government works in steps. i wonder what the streets are going to look like 10 years from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shai_hulud Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways Preemptive fascism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracksmoka Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways so its alright that everyone isnt "SAFE" from these possible terrorist's till march? like if something was going to happen they would wait till AFTER they waste all this funding...Err, i mean implement this plan. FEAR MONGORING ahhhh god bless america. also i cant wait till they start blowing people the fuck out... cops with fully automatic rifles ON THE TRAIN.... thats great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways that is one of the stupidest ideas i've heard for a while. and if terrorists are as smart as the government doesnt portay, the should just attack before the new system is implemented. But either way, i fail to see how they will help, terrorists will still find a way to kill people. Cracksmockas dead on, it's just fear mongoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sars.Saw.Chicago Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways off the topic....but in chicago they gotta plan for what transits gonna look like in 09... not as crazy as this...but were all gettin there soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAR Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways Ive already seen them in DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
got_that_work Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways at least wit the muthafuckas walkin round wit choppers you know aint nothin gonna pop off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOE-LESTER Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways and kids used to crush trains and eat pizzas in train yards while painting them......... HAHAHAHAH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCheadle Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways robocop is next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways Police State Conditioning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the dark horse Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways as soon as i heard the word "automatic," i knew we were starting to lose the fight ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunt double Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways i fuckin hate the idea of "random" bag searches, say goodbye to your rights!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways i dont understand why they call them random when its not at all possible for them to conduct the searches without bias. they profile everyone they see and choose who to target, why cant they call it what it is, white men searching dark men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceLeroy Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways Police State Conditioning. thank you GOOCH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperface Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways WHACK news. This has a lot to do with the elections? maybe cops will be handing out 'vote rudy' flyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways I think its funny how nothing has happened here at all as far as a general terror attack on the transit system but they can search your bag now for no reason and now this. All this preemptive bullshit can't stop anything. If you want to kill a bunch of people here, this won't really stop you at all. New York city has basically said fuck you to upholding the constitution rights of its citizens long before 911. You cant even legally own a gun here which would be a great deterrent. Instead we can all be searched and have a heavily armed meat head here for our protection. That shit can make you miss your train. After all those hundreds of thousands of illegal searches have they found a bomb? No, just confiscated some weed I bet and made people late for work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways slowly but surely, this shit will be the norm everywhere in the states. honestly, i want to leave the states for good, skip out on my student loans and live somewhere else. but at the same time, i don't want to leave. any suggestions, about where to potentially relocate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways I think its funny how nothing has happened here at all as far as a general terror attack on the transit system but they can search your bag now for no reason and now this. All this preemptive bullshit can't stop anything. If you want to kill a bunch of people here, this won't really stop you at all. New York city has basically said fuck you to upholding the constitution rights of its citizens long before 911. You cant even legally own a gun here which would be a great deterrent. Instead we can all be searched and have a heavily armed meat head here for our protection. That shit can make you miss your train. After all those hundreds of thousands of illegal searches have they found a bomb? No, just confiscated some weed I bet and made people late for work. but that's the point. it's being implemented under the guise of a deterrent for terror, so it's welcomed by most with open arms, but in reality it's giving them the "probable cause" to search whoever and whenever. more arrests will be made and the stats will show that crime is going down, down, down. at the same time it will desensitize everyone to the making of a gestapoesque police state. honestly, i wouldn't call myself paranoid or a conspiracy theorist but i like keep shit on the table for consideration. shit like this HAS to make you raise an eye and say "hmmm". most people don't bother to care or to notice, which makes it even easier to be implemented and sustained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracksmoka Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways guiliani has been out of the race since wen.... he folded after he lost in florida. and this shit is inevitable, The large majority of americans DONT want be bothered with concerns over they're constitutional freedoms. They would rather just let the government run ram-shod over everything cause they are to LAZY to take things that affect their lives into they're own hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA KID MERO Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways Police State Conditioning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8174515935541617202&q=paris+what+would+you+really+do&total=204&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperface Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways Good that rudy fell off, I didn't know that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
En Sabah Nur Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways you guys do realize all you have to do is go to war with them, right? just stop thinking of them as people, and fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracksmoka Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways true, but you need to convince the masses that they have the right to first... if you did that then probably half if not more of all police and military would change sides REAL quick... Americans underestimate that they have the most powerful weapon of all when it comes to their own freedom... NUMBERS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways you guys need to know something. most of the military and a lot of the police are on our side. some just need to be reminded about that oath they swore.some don't. they know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
En Sabah Nur Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways remind them with a bullet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 nah, i'm not hating on all cops or everyone in the military and to do so is juvenile and ignorant. i know a lot of dudes who are/were nypd and are cool. guys i grew up with. i'm not going to judge all of them based on a handful of assholes, and in all honesty, if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 Re: New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways remind them with a bullet. that may be what they want. trying to provoke citizens to take action, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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