Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway

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M4 Carbine Rifles, MP5 Submachine Guns & Bomb Sniffing Dogs Part Of New "Torch Team" Anti-Terror Efforts

"More protection against terrorists is coming to a subway station near you. Starting Thursday, special bomb teams, known as "Torch Teams," will be toting submachine guns and bringing bomb-sniffing dogs onto the platforms and into the trains. CBS 2 HD was out first thing Thursday morning on the lookout for these significant security measure improvements.

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It's a first for mass transit in the United States. NYPD officers, armed with rifles, submachine guns, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs will begin patrolling the city's subway system thanks to a 50 percent increase in a homeland security grant.

The city's massive subway system has long been considered a potential terror target. Six officers and a dog will constitute a team, patrolling all platforms and trains in 12-hour shifts. The "Torch Teams" will be toting MP5 submachine guns and M4 Carbine rifles that are used by Navy seals and FBI hostage-rescue teams. The teams are being paid for by $151 million from the Feds.

Similarly equipped NYPD units, known as "Hercules Teams," have patrolled Wall Street, the Empire State Building and other aboveground city landmarks for years as a response to the World Trade Center attacks.

A police official likened the "Torch Teams" to "Hercules Teams" with MetroCards. In this age of heightened security, commuters and keen canines will share the underground world of mass transit.

"It's a very good idea. It's like a deterrent. It's going to make me feel safer, much safer, yes it will. It's a good idea," said commuter Patricia Knight Williams."

Comment

And this will stop hijacked planes how?

Oh, I get it, it’s to stop train hijackers!

Food rationing and machine gun police.

Looks more like North Korea every day.

— Fake Frank Sinatra · Apr 24, 08:19 AM · #

“And this will stop hijacked planes how?
Oh, I get it, it’s to stop train hijackers!
Food rationing and machine gun police.
Looks more like North Korea every day.”

Your so Freaking Right!

— johhnyb · Apr 24, 08:20 AM · #

That its a way to make people feel safer is ok.
Although this kinda of thing is rather unpractical considering terrorist methods.One of the most popular is being able to carry a bomb straight onto the subway and then set it off. Yeah, lets see a team of 6 guys with overpowered guns and dogs pick that guy out of groups of people who come and go by the 1,000’s.

— Marious · Apr 24, 12:44 PM · #

@Marious

But you see, that’s why they have the machine guns in the first place! With pistols they couldn’t pick out the terrorist in time, but if they suspect someone now, they can just spray bullets into the crowd.

— John · Apr 24, 12:58 PM · #

“The teams are being paid for by $151 million from the Feds.”

Typical American bullshit.

Let’s sink further into debt for the saftey and well-being of our citizens.

But, in the meantime…

“Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”

(cause that’s on the tax-payers tab, too!)

Until we can decypher the “good” from the “bad” .. No immigration at all. From anywhere.

Fuck political correctness.

It’s alot less expensive, not to mention more fool-proof than some ‘Urban Rambo’ patroling subways.

Wtf.

— avrill · Apr 25, 04:39 AM · #

This is absolutely ridiculous, although theoretically a Beslan scenario could occur (except that was a Putin falseflag operation…)

Most terrorist methods would not be remotely hindered by this, it’s ridiculous.

— V · May 26, 04:26 PM · #

WOW… i wish everyone in America would stop whining… it is not getting you anywhere and you are simply contributing to greenhouse gases when you are done you should go to the local recruter’s office and see if they appreciate your bitching. And honestly i agree with avrill- fuck everyone trying to be pc if you cannot take someones true feelings then fuck you go away this is America we are free to say and think whatever we want… if you dont like it … oh well … fucking move… make room for the fucking immigrants because they dont seem to want to stop coming here

— Josh · May 26, 08:52 PM · #

And you know what Josh, this is fucking America. If I want to express my distaste for an increasingly dictatorial administration and our decline into a police state, Ill fucking do it. If you dont like it, why dont you move some place else? Id rather one more hard working immigrant crowd my city than a militant dickwad. You are more of a danger to this country than they ever will be because you are so ready to give up your freedom, and my freedom, for the illusion of security.

Now its the heavily armored and armed subway guard, next its a subway checkpoint and pat down, then its the curfew. The only thing you should be imminently afraid of at this point are your elected officials.

— Anomie · Jun 1, 10:20 AM · #

Thank Bush, now no one can hijack a subway car and drive it into a building.

I think I’ll vote for the asshat Repub’s again.

Oh, and I’m wondering,
Is McCain a Bush Hugger?

— Chuckie · Jun 28, 07:38 AM · #

God, you Americans never stop fucking whining.
Many countries have army patrolling subways / train stations. Get over it.

— Beatstick · Dec 2, 06:15 AM · #

Just because other places are already worse than here means we shouldn’t complain that things are getting worse?

— Ben · Feb 6, 10:57 PM · #

Americans are not whiners for wanting to minimize the military strength of their government.

This country was founded on the belief that a government should be afraid of its people NOT the other way around. The primary purpose of the 2nd amendment was not to keep citizens armed to fend off home invaders, but to keep citizens armed so they can and will overthrow a corrupt government should it arise. It’s going to take things getting much, much worse before people wake up and realize that we DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE THIS WAY. No welfare state, no big brother, people study your history and realize what we’ve lost. Read up on John Adams, Jefferson, George Mason — please, before the last refuge from an Orwellian world is lost. From 1817 to 1861 American people were not directly taxed for government programs, they had paid off the war of 1812 in 5 years and would have screamed out in horror that 1/3 of an average citizen’s income goes to taxes.

— L.C. · Apr 21, 09:05 AM · #

Eric Carlson and Joan Wagar, A,K,A, Doubleclick and Mrs Dash,( yes those are there nicknames they gave each other.) admitted to poisoning me while I was a plasma donor back in 2005.
Eric Carlson pedofied me behind prison walls and then framed me as a pedophile on march 26th 2007, I caught the crime on a audio recorder I put in Joan’s purse.
there were people in authority helping them with this and nobody in authority will help they pretend nothing happened and refuse to investigate this.
Eric Carlson changed his hair color and his name to Gashel and Clackamas Walmart was hiding him from my Family by pretending He’s someone else but this is not hidden, only ignored by the authority’s and media
I’m disabled from being poisoned and the hospitals refuse to admit I’m poisoned.
My Family is in danger from these people and I have no other recourse but to make these charges public.
My name is Terry Wagar,Im from Portland Oregon and I’m backing up these charges.
I have been threatened with harassment charges by a Sargent Walker, She is a Portland Police officer stationed at the OHSU hospital, for the non crime of reporting a multi murder conspiracy within that hospital.
They dont give a s4!t Joan and Eric was poisoning a plasma donor!
And how many god damn John Ray’s in authority are there in portland oregon!
You damn serial killer.
Where did Mrs Dash keep her stash? in A Garlic Salt Shaker!
What did Doubleclick do with his Dick? You Pedo!
Why you hiding A body double for Clackamas Walmart?
Cover this up Sgt Walker!

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/04/390861.shtml

It’s A great responsibility to report A crime the Authority’s don’t want reported!

— Terry Wagar · May 2, 06:27 PM · #

Idk about anyone else, but machine guns make me uneasy, no matter whose hands they’re in. Good things don’t happen when machine guns are in public. Perhaps if people as a whole avoided places where we have machine guns pointed at us as the baseline, perhaps they’d be forced to find a new way to terrorize us. I bet that business owners, even of infrastructure services, would kick out this gang if they were driving people away. (Gangs are groups of folks who run around with guns to protect their turf)

— Tim · May 24, 03:03 PM · #

It would be desirable to see continuation

— Mistic · Aug 25, 05:47 AM · #