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Exclusive: Elaborate New York City Post-9/11 Security

NYPD Commish: Big Apple Has Its Own Army, Navy, Tanks & Soon A Submarine

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Surveillance Cameras (file / credit: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

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Reporting Marcia Kramer

NYC Remembers

NEW YORK (CBS 2) — The latest terror threat has come out just as a brand new CBS/New York Times poll shows 1 out of 3 New Yorkers still thinks about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks at least once a week.

CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer has an exclusive look at the city’s post-9/11 security.

There are radiation detection boats in the waters, cameras that have been placed all over lower and Midtown Manhattan and there are cops with guns and tanks and all kinds of weapons, because in New York a terror attack could come from anywhere, and anyone.

“There’s no shortage of people who are willing to give up their lives for the cause,” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

It’s been 10 years but our concerns about terrorism are still staggering and constant. Even the death of Osama bin Laden didn’t lessen the fear.

Two thirds of Americans, 67 percent in a stunning CBS/New York Times poll say killing the al Qaeda mastermind didn’t make them feel safer.

But that’s not all. A majority – 57 percent — say subway security measures are insufficient.

And as for other potential terror targets:

* Only 27 percent say airports are a lot safer

* Only 20 percent say bridges and tunnels are safer

* And just 14 percent say area nuclear plants are safer

Kramer sat down with Commissioner Kelly for a rare and candid talk about terror. Some of the arrows in his anti-terror quiver are pretty amazing and newly revealed.

For openers, he has his own navy.

“We actually have the ability to have a small submarine, not manned, to check the part of the boats that are submerged,” Kelly said.

“We have a new boat on order. We envision a situation where we may have to get to an island or across water quickly, so we’re able to transport our heavy weapons officers rapidly.”

Kelly also has his own army — 1,000 anti-terror cops with tanks and weapons, carved out of the NYPD after 9/11.

“We have to do things differently. We know that this is where terrorists want to come,” Kelly said.

But in the city’s war on terror it’s often about what you don’t see. You do see the cops and the weapons and the bomb dogs. You don’t see the legion of  bi-lingual undercover officers and analysts. You also don’t see much of the intricate web of surveillance cameras the commissioner continues to build.

“Now you’re going to see a fairly rapid increase in the number of cameras,” Kelly said.

Much of the information streams into a high-tech center in lower Manhattan where analysts evaluate it in real time, 24/7.

The security comes at a mind-boggling price.

“Probably 9/11 has cost us at least a trillion dollars as a country,” Kelly said.

Despite the budget crisis, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he’s committed to fighting terror.

The police commissioner said the money and effort being spent to protect New York City is a “clear message” to terrorists to stay away.

Please offer your thoughts in the comments section below.

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  • Diego Roswell

    What a waste of time and money to use military style defenses against a faceless enemy from within that is so willing to die by suicide. These efforts made by the broke state of NY are so over the top that the terrorists if there are any, must be laughing their silly little turbans off. The “enemy” is the current administration and all that believe that spending the people’s money is the answer. The “enemy” is the man in the radical leftist that has no regard for private property. The true “enemy” is not fought with tanks and a navy but the truth. Radical Islamists plus radical leftists plus union organization equals the real threat against america.

    • Mark

      Diego, the truth is we are all the enemy. People are waking up to the fraud of terrorism and the police state being forced on us.

  • Dan Shay

    Army, Navy, tanks, submarines? Sounds like the makings of a police state.

    • Mike Notsaying

      sounds like the beginning of a 4th Reich to me, brown coat army of jackbooted thugs

  • John Blackadder

    To paraphrase Winston: “Never, in the history of Man, has so few cost so many so much!”
    We have lost our sens of proportion. A trillion dollars. That’s $3 Billion per al Qaeda member. That’s not money well spent. Offering rewards of $100 Million per head would have worked better, and cost a lot less.
    And, sadly, if the truth be known, a dedicated lone terrorist could still bring a truck bomb to New York. A good mole or a paid informer are way better than those submarines.

  • none

    Has no one ever put a camera on the collar of their pets to see what they do during the day? This is the same thing , the new world order just wants to keep an EYE on their pets too.

  • Troy Mclure

    NYC is nothing more than a third world country. It is not the center of the universe nor the center of the U.S. No one outside that third world country really cares about NYC or the key stone cops who think they are equivalent with those who actually protect America and serve in the military. Boys become cops, Men serve in the military.

    • Joni

      everyone knows people who join the military had no other choices when they graduated from high school, well other than flipping burgers (would u like fries with that?)

      • Fred Hoot

        I know several college graduates that signed up and joined the military.
        In fact, I know a civilian who works in a technical field that is on the battlefield right now for his country.
        Remember it IS an all-volunteer service.

      • bhv

        My honor students (yes two if them) joined out of a sense of pride and honor. Your statement simply shows your ignorance.

        If I was young enough I’d have been there with them, university degrees and all.

        Troy’s last sentence is bang on.

      • Kurt

        Until a Libturd such as yourself is in dire need for their help and protection, then you will think they are God’s gift. You make me want to puke!

      • rob

        really Joni? flipping burgers or calibrating aircraft instrumentation so a pilot can land on a 10 foot square, at night with no lights by following a dot on the instrument panel… flipping burgers flipping burgers or driving a billion dollar boat… flipping burgers or running a nuclear power plant.. .

        the modern military does not want burger flippers with no choices… why do think they contract out the menial tasks to haliburton

      • Glen Hirsch

        Your an idiot who sleeps under the blanket of freedom that others provide

      • USAF

        You have no idea what you are speaking of all AF pilot have degrees, all officers have degrees and a lot more enlisted then you think have degrees, some join the military because they could not afford college, others join for patriotism to their country there are many reasons. Your comment shows you ignorance about the modern American Military personnel.

      • ProudMama

        You are one who knows nothing about the Military. Those in the Military now are more educated then most people their age in the civilian sector. Many are married with children and they take care of their responsibilities and they take care of their families – unlike many of those in the private sector. I joined right out of High School – not because I had to – but because I wanted to see the world and I have – I’ve been to all 50 states, and to 14 countries and I wouldn’t trade my 30 years in uniform for anything. I am a better person because I served.

      • Ebt66

        How very funny. I joined in 1985 because (even as a conservative) I answered Kennedy’s inaugural call back in 1961 and his address to West Point in 1963 about what you can do for your country and what you are doing for your country. I served till 2006. During that time, The Army sent me to language school for German and Arabic, both of which I spoke fluently and still speak pretty darn well. I went to language school with two individuals who had doctorate degrees and a number who had masters degrees. These were all enlisted “hamburger flippers”. After I retired I went back to college and earned a 3.49 GPA and Phi Kappa Phi honors and am now a social studies teacher at an alternative school for kids with behavior or drug/alcohol problems. So tell me Joni, what have you done for YOUR country lately? (besides denigrate those who choose to serve willingly.)

    • Pete

      Troy, many MEN become police. I agree that the REAL fighting is done by the military. However, it’s not correct to denegrate the police force because their job is to protect Americans in every city across the country. Imagine an America without the police and it gets pretty ugly.

      • P. Amboy

        Cops protect no one, they clean up afterward.

    • Kelly Van Rijn

      And idiots like ‘Troy Mclure’ do neither, preferring instead to sit on his fat a$$ and complain. God Bless NYC, its cops and the US Military!

      • Troy Mclure

        Actually, I am an Army veteran. The fact is cops are reactionary and sacrifice nothing more than any other citizen would. There is nothing that cops do you for you that you cannot do for yourself. If you rely on cops for your personal protection you are wrong and might as well give up now. A cop is not your best protection, you are.

        The only thing that cops can do that you can’t is write speeding tickets. Cops go home every night to their cozy beds and have no duty under law to protect anyone. They can walk away anytime they want and not be held accountable, just look at what the New Orleans cops did after Katrina… they ran away scared.

    • Justin

      Troy McLure,
      you are clearly an ignorant red neck. I doubt you have ever left the country.
      NYC is the best city in the world. But you have probably never travelled outside your podunk town with a population of 66 people.

      People like you sadden me. You are the reason people abroad say “ignorant American”

  • none

    The new world order just likes to watch and see what their pets are doing.

  • Land of the free, really

    They forgot to mention the CIA office inside the NYPD advising and consulting on domestic spying on civilians.

    • Regulas

      Good point, NYC is a bastion of liberals who now live in a box of big brother they made themselves. I hope you dunkoffs who traded you freedom for a police state are enjoying you box.

  • Samuel

    I don’t understand why articles like this use polls that measure the perception of safety as evidence towards our nation’s actual safety.

  • LandoftheLameOs

    You’re right. When Bush took office, he and his administration had to find a way of killing over 2000 people in a single day – but not literally. They had to make the planes land somewhere else and have all of the passengers live in hiding the rest of their lives, THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. And to get this idea to work the administration, had to have over 3000 other people in government, including first responders, and privately owned airline companies to buy in – and of course, the demolition specialists with I suspect no conscience. All of these people had their consciences wiped of moral discernment to carry out “The Inside Job”. And to date – no one has SAID anything —- those people my friend, are True Americans. Because America, is a giant inside job. And btw, the airlines companies would have to agree to suffer billions in lost revenues and expenses. And btw, the last time I checked we are enjoying great discounted gas prices at the pump because we did go to the middle east to get the oil. It all makes perfect sense. Maybe you should make a youtube video on it – but wait somebody else did that and you bought into it……HOOK – LINE – and – SINKER BENEATH 165 feet of water.

    • Mikey

      Any time I need a laugh I pull up that video of some nutjob trying to melt chicken wire with lighter fluid and then say that proves the towers were brought down with demolition charges.. Some people are permanently stuck on stupid.

    • Alex Winter NYC

      Go join the Taliban “LandoftheLameOs” you ignorant sack of sh!t.

    • attilathehun

      One of the nice things about the old CB radio fad was that it’s range was only 10 miles or so and you could not post messages on it. Back then the conspiracy folks would not have had an audience. The internet is a powerful tool for the mentaly ill.

    • TheRealKingMax

      LandoftheLameOs…..

      Obviously, that’s where YOU came from.

      These are the most warped of the radical left wing – even Obama wants nothing to do with them.

      Folks, there’s an easy way to b-slap these wack jobs all over the place, and here it is:

      If Bush (or whomever) REALLY took down the towers, Building 7, your sister, etc….

      Then WHY DID OSAMA BIN LADEN, AL QEIDA AND THE TALIBAN CLAIM CREDIT FOR DOING THE SAME DIRTY DEED, PLACE THEMSELVES IN MORTAL DANGER WAITING FOR US TO RETALIATE, AND IN MANY CASES, PAY WITH THEIR LIVES FOR SOMETHING THEY DID NOT DO?

      Wait – let me get some popcorn before you come back with your reason why you are from “LandoftheLameOs”.

  • Ranger01

    A cop driving a Submarine? HA! That is the job of the coast gaurd or Navy. What a sham, the city of NewYork should not have to be picking up this cost! That is the job of the US Government!!!! To protect it’s citizens, not it’s Illegal invaiders.

    • Mark Gillett

      Tell that to Texas, Arizona and California

      • Texas by way of NYC

        I believe he said UNMANNED submarine. Christ! what an…

  • walter12

    No one with any common sense denies the pure evil in the Muslim terrorists, but is this not a ploy by the social Marxist, dictator of NYC, Bloomberg?

    • Regulas

      Bloomberg is a liberal nazi and terrorist sympathizer. NYC has salt, trans fat police and who knows what other big brother laws. His regime has allowed a 9-11 victory mosque to be built. I could now care less if the Muslims take your pit-hole city out, you deserve it.

      • john

        Bloomberg is the Devil

    • Fred

      The Muslim just want the US govt out of their countries. Terrorism can be ended by not invading and occupying the Middle East, of course minding our own business isnt good for business.

      • Frank

        Oh really Fred? Muslims are called on in the koran to convert or kill all non-believers, you may say this is only the islamic extremists, but you can not deny that it is directly from the koran. They will bring their jihad to the infidels where ever they are…as 9/11/01 proved. Their true enemy is any people that value freedom!

  • Tom Dewick

    Your tin foil hat is coming loose.

  • Dude

    Inside job. All this article says is that the terrorists who carried out the attacks now have more cameras, more troops, more tanks, and a submarine.

    • tony

      HAHA…That is the greatest comment I have ever read on this thing! Kudos to you Dude!!!

  • allah_speaking

    So you really are Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs…

  • Jeb

    We are all laughing at you moron. Talk about duped.

  • Max Kennedy

    And if you don’t believe that – and I have intentionally not looked at the 911 attacks because I buried my father that day, you can look at the ANTHRAX attacks, which came from our own government labs and wasn’t muslim either despite the ALLAH IS GREAT DEATH TO THE INFIDELS notes that were attached to them.

  • Bob

    And I thought Escape From New York was fiction but it looks to be reality soon!

  • Dave Shaffer

    Keep spreading the FUD, CBS.

  • Bob Kutz

    Hey, I am all in favor of New York having their own troops and assets to deal with terrorists. Local control is far more effective than federal control.

    As long as they allow the citizens to protect (arm) themselves as well.

    A government that controls all the weapons controls all the people.

    I think there’s even something in the Constitution about it.

    • Regulas

      Good point and well taken by many of us who know that. I want the heads of who knew about the gun running to Mexico to drum up support for the lie that 95% of drug runner guns came from us when in fact it was about 5%. thats why the Obama regime tried to arm them all with our guns so they could justify new laws to ours away. I say over my dead body, live free of die trying and the time is approaching when a new civil war may have to fought unless the Marxist/Socialists government backs down from it’s progression toward a police state.

  • BFDeal

    If NYC is that well secured, won’t the damn terrorists look for a “soft” city?? 3000 people is 3000 people. Any city will do.

    • jazzman67

      yeah, it would really make a global statement to attack some tank town like the one you live in…nyc and dc are THE targest; always were and always will be…nyc and dc…the rest of you bumpkins don’t need to worry…

  • mortman

    A submarine? how many parking tickets is that going to cost? how much money can these self perpetuating rip offs waste? it is endless. The subways are so easy to attack, if there were terrorist who wanted to attack them, they would have long ago.

  • Joe Kliplinger

    What should the rubes say about Obama now. We voted Obama because we hated Bush’s dictatorship. We want Gitmo closed. We want rendition stopped. We want to bring troops home. We want our civil liberties back. So has anything changed under Obama.

    • 1776

      That’s (further) proof of the “Left vs. Right” paradigm…used by the Globalist Elite to decieve the populace. The GOP & DNC “leadership” are two sides of the same coin…controlled by the Globalists.

      • Barry bin Inhalin

        …could be. I guess that makes an independant like Sarah Palin that much more attractive as POTUS.

      • Regulas

        Agree

    • TheRealKingMax

      “Bush’s dictatorship”.

      Right.

      You are the perfect poster child for abortion rights.

  • TexasForever

    Hey New Yorkers!
    If you did not love Democrats so much, you would not your rights stolen from you.
    You reap what you sow!

    • Jackie

      what’s that? u guys need some water? drip drip drip

      • Regulas

        I hope you are the first to be tested with new anal cameras NY will shove up your liberal arses

    • Justin

      Texas forever, you ignorant red neck!
      You don’t have a passport do you?

  • Biff

    Washington state needs something like this to deal with the longshoremen problems.

    • BFDeal

      We could pay the terrorists to strap on bomb vests and go to Union meetings. 1 less terrorist a lot less unionists. win-win.

      • barry soetoro

        BFDeal, you’re forgetting the fact that union thug = terrorist.

      • Newyorkersnotsobright

        ‘unionist’ ??

        I hear china does not allow unions – you should go there.

        You could beat your employees until you were content there.

    • justin

      “Newyorksnotsobright”…Me thinks that YOU are not so bright.
      What are you even talking about? Your a union guy huh? Well USA does NOT need unions anymore. Get over it

  • cntrlfrk


    Thank you President George W. Bush for taking the fight to the evil people that attacked us 10 years ago, and for making the world a much safer place.

    .

    • Family member FDNY

      Mayor B and PD Comm should be given high fives for all they did and will do.
      NYC is bigger than most states and run twice, no five times better than the NIC at the Whitehouse

      • FF

        Next time you see a FDNY truck tell then thanks; goes a L O N G way. My son responses in mid-town;m everything from airplanes in Hudson to terror attacks at WTC Who want that job anybody ot\uthere willing to put their a$$ on line evry call evry day? Remember 9-11 and 343 FF’s who died they went in when others were runnuing out!!!

      • Andrew Wags

        If its ran so well how come 9/11 happened to begin with. Really ran well huh.

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