‘We WILL protect you’: Police ramp up security checks and promise an unprecedented ‘ring of steel’ across major cities for New Year’s Eve amid looming threat of lone wolf ISIS attacks
Cities across the United States are ramping up security measures for the holiday
NYC police are promising a bigger security detail than ever before for festivities centered on Times Square
Las Vegas officials are preparing for the highest security level possible for a special event, SEAR Level 1
San Francisco police will patrol hotspots such as Fisherman’s Wharf and the Embarcadero in greater numbers than in years past
New York and Las Vegas have recently experienced acts of terrorism; San Francisco authorities thwarted a potential attack this pas month
Since the July 2016 terrorist attack in Nice, France, the world has seen multiple vehicular acts of terrorism
By Forrest Hanson and Khaleda Rahman
DailyMail.com
31 December 2017
Cities across the United States are ramping up security measures to ensure a safe and enjoyable New Year’s Eve for millions of revelers amid heightened fears of a terror attack.
New York City police are promising a bigger security detail than ever before for this year’s New Year’s Eve festivities centered on Times Square.
Up to two million people are expected to flood the commercial center of the nation’s largest city tomorrow night.
As well, the city’s ‘ring of steel’ – surveillance cameras in high-traffic areas, inspired by the apparatus surrounding the City of London – will be used to assess unusual activity.
The stepped-up security is in response to an attempted bombing in a Times Square subway station walkway on December 11.
ISIS fighters also recently shared a disturbing propaganda image threatening a Christmas-time attack on New York City. The image showed Santa Claus standing on a low roof next to a box of dynamite looking out over a crowd of shoppers in Times Square. The poster featured the words ‘We meet at Christmas in New York… soon’, written across it in black on white.
And it comes on top of increasingly stringent security for the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration in the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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