From the New York Times:
New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways
“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.”

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Good thing we have those evil terrorists to blame. If we didn’t have those freedom-hating evildoers, people would start to throw around ugly phrases like “police state, fascist regime, scaring the citzenry into being good little sheeple”, that sort of thing. And thank goodness the US economy is so great right now that we can spend millions upon millions of dollars on scare programs like this one. /sarcasm

Posted by Vixen in News