As part of a response to increased crime rates, a special 60-car anti-terror team will be delegated to NYC's most dangerous areas. The NYPD's Counter-Terrorism Bureau, known for its terror-deterring "shows of force" around Manhattan landmarks like Times Square, will split off into smaller groups to combat rising felony reports (murder rates have spiked 22 percent so far this year). "This is a direct response to the increase in crime, murders, shootings that have been reported in the media," a high-ranking NYPD supervisor told the Post.
The counter-terror squad's reassignment is an expansion of another program that brings up to 75 extra cops to each bad neighborhood, one day a week. But a concerned party notes that in the wake of the Moscow subway attacks, the city shouldn't be shifting resources away from anti-terror efforts. "Why are they doing it now at this time? There was just a bombing in Moscow. You would think they'd be increasing terror programs," the source said.
