Despite an absence of specific threats, the NYPD plans to beef up security later this month during Pesach. The NYPD’s deputy commissioner of intelligence, David Cohen, told Jewish leaders at a meeting yesterday, that counterterrorism forces “will be in high gear throughout the Passover period.”
Cohen says New York City and its large Jewish population face constant threats in al-Qaida, the Hezbollah guerrilla group and so-called homegrown terrorists. But he stresses that the department has no evidence of any specific terrorist activity related to Pesach.
Police officials say that as a precaution, the NYPD will step up patrols in Jewish communities and around Shuls.
(Source: WABC)
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LEIL SHIMURIM L’HASHEM!
what I discovered is that th cops are in front of very few shuls. they are mostly by the Manhattan shuls, and maybe by the sfardisha
ACTUALY THERE ARE ALOT OF EMPTY COP CARS PARKED ALL OVER BORO PARK AND SOME TIMES THE VISITS OF THOSE HEAVELY ARMED ESU OFFICERS IN FRONT OF MUNKATCH “IM HASHEM LO YISHMOR IR SHOV SHOKAT SHOMER”
Every yom tov there are always tons of helicopters all over.