NYPD claims to be ready to shoot down a plane!
Sep 26, 2011, 12:19 pm
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NYPD claims to be ready to shoot down a plane!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44666835...ity/?GT1=43001
The New York Police Department could take down a plane if necessary, Commissioner Ray Kelly said Sunday, describing the counter-terror measures he implemented after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Kelly decided the city couldn't rely on the federal government alone after the attacks, he told CBS' "60 Minutes".
And so he set about creating the NYPD's own counter-terrorism unit, which is prepared for multiple scenarios and could even take down a plane, he said.
"I knew that we had to supplement, buttress our defenses of this city," Kelly told "60 Minutes".
"We couldn't rely on the federal government alone. I believed that we had to create our own counter-terrorism capacity, indeed our own counter-terrorism division. And, that plan was put into effect fairly rapidly," he added.
Kelly didn't divulge details about the NYPD's ability to take down a plane but said "obviously this would be in a very extreme situation."
Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne later added that "NYPD Aviation has weapons that could be deployed with that capability," the New York Post reported Monday - snip
I for one feel LESS safe knowing the NYPD both as the means and feels empowered to shoot down a plane.
The New York Police Department could take down a plane if necessary, Commissioner Ray Kelly said Sunday, describing the counter-terror measures he implemented after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Kelly decided the city couldn't rely on the federal government alone after the attacks, he told CBS' "60 Minutes".
And so he set about creating the NYPD's own counter-terrorism unit, which is prepared for multiple scenarios and could even take down a plane, he said.
"I knew that we had to supplement, buttress our defenses of this city," Kelly told "60 Minutes".
"We couldn't rely on the federal government alone. I believed that we had to create our own counter-terrorism capacity, indeed our own counter-terrorism division. And, that plan was put into effect fairly rapidly," he added.
Kelly didn't divulge details about the NYPD's ability to take down a plane but said "obviously this would be in a very extreme situation."
Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne later added that "NYPD Aviation has weapons that could be deployed with that capability," the New York Post reported Monday - snip
I for one feel LESS safe knowing the NYPD both as the means and feels empowered to shoot down a plane.
Sep 26, 2011, 1:32 pm
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.50 calibre gun that they can fit to a helicopter. Even if you ignore the unlikelihood of such a gun bringing down anything bigger than a Cessna you still have the wee problem that they have to get it's use authorised, dragged out of it's cupboard and fitted to to the helicopter before they can actually shoot at anything
Sep 26, 2011, 1:46 pm
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Sep 26, 2011, 1:47 pm
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.50 calibre gun that they can fit to a helicopter. Even if you ignore the unlikelihood of such a gun bringing down anything bigger than a Cessna you still have the wee problem that they have to get it's use authorised, dragged out of it's cupboard and fitted to to the helicopter before they can actually shoot at anything
The entire segment was incredibly disturbing.
Sep 26, 2011, 2:01 pm
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.50 calibre gun that they can fit to a helicopter. Even if you ignore the unlikelihood of such a gun bringing down anything bigger than a Cessna you still have the wee problem that they have to get it's use authorised, dragged out of it's cupboard and fitted to to the helicopter before they can actually shoot at anything
Sep 26, 2011, 2:17 pm
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.50 calibre gun that they can fit to a helicopter. Even if you ignore the unlikelihood of such a gun bringing down anything bigger than a Cessna you still have the wee problem that they have to get it's use authorised, dragged out of it's cupboard and fitted to to the helicopter before they can actually shoot at anything
Disinformation for public consumption.
Sep 26, 2011, 3:11 pm
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44666835...ity/?GT1=43001
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Kelly decided the city couldn't rely on the federal government alone after the attacks, he told CBS' "60 Minutes".
And so he set about creating the NYPD's own counter-terrorism unit, which is prepared for multiple scenarios and could even take down a plane, he said.
"I knew that we had to supplement, buttress our defenses of this city," Kelly told "60 Minutes".
"We couldn't rely on the federal government alone. I believed that we had to create our own counter-terrorism capacity, indeed our own counter-terrorism division. And, that plan was put into effect fairly rapidly," he added.
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Kelly decided the city couldn't rely on the federal government alone after the attacks, he told CBS' "60 Minutes".
And so he set about creating the NYPD's own counter-terrorism unit, which is prepared for multiple scenarios and could even take down a plane, he said.
"I knew that we had to supplement, buttress our defenses of this city," Kelly told "60 Minutes".
"We couldn't rely on the federal government alone. I believed that we had to create our own counter-terrorism capacity, indeed our own counter-terrorism division. And, that plan was put into effect fairly rapidly," he added.
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But, the rest? Wow. Paranoid much? 
Sep 26, 2011, 3:47 pm
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"Buttress our defenses of this city"? Does he think he's living in Troy, or Camelot, or Jericho? Why doesn't he build a stone wall; Manhattan already has a de-facto moat around it.
Sep 26, 2011, 6:33 pm
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