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TSA to Take over Subway Bag Checks for NYC.

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Source The New York Police Department is shrinking, and the department can't hire the number of cops it would like to (Bullshit). Fox 5 News has learned that help is coming from security screeners at the area airports. They'll be replacing some police officers in the subway who do bag searches. But some critics say this is just another clear example that the economy has affected security. Within the next two months, Transportation Security Administration bag screeners from Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports will be replacing most NYPD cops in the subway that screen bags for explosives. Because of the police officer shortage, the NYPD needs to take these police officers and put them on the street to fight crime. The TSA would not confirm this program is taking place, but did tell Fox 5 News that a program like this would not affect safety at area airports. This is how it would work: About 30 TSA screeners a day will be pulled from the three area airports Monday th

NYPD TO BUILD TERROR VAULT.

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The NYPD is going to be constructing a secure facility at police headquarters to house and gain access to classified anti-terrorism intelligence previously limited to national organizations like the FBI. The center is known as a Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Facility (SCIF) and access to the facility will only be granted to NYPD personnel with proper security clearances. The SCIF was requested by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who has NYPD personnel working abroad to combat terrorism and gather information, but felt that the FBI had a choke hold on anti-terror data collected at the national level. He told The Washington Post , "People have information, and they want to control information. Controlling information is power, and they don't want to let it go -- it is as fundamental as that." It took six years after Kelly's initial request in 2002 for the FBI to agree to share its information. At first, the Bureau was resistant to the idea because it didn'