Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway

M4 Carbine Rifles, MP5 Submachine Guns & Bomb Sniffing Dogs Part Of New "Torch Team" Anti-Terror Efforts
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Magee Hickey NEW YORK (CBS) ― More protection against terrorists is coming to a subway station near you. Starting Thursday, special bomb teams, known as "Torch Teams," will be toting submachine guns and bringing bomb-sniffing dogs onto the platforms and into the trains. CBS 2 HD was out first thing Thursday morning on the lookout for these significant security measure improvements.

It's a first for mass transit in the United States. NYPD officers, armed with rifles, submachine guns, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs will begin patrolling the city's subway system thanks to a 50 percent increase in a homeland security grant.

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The city's massive subway system has long been considered a potential terror target. Six officers and a dog will constitute a team, patrolling all platforms and trains in 12-hour shifts. The "Torch Teams" will be toting MP5 submachine guns and M4 Carbine rifles that are used by Navy seals and FBI hostage-rescue teams. The teams are being paid for by $151 million from the Feds.

Similarly equipped NYPD units, known as "Hercules Teams," have patrolled Wall Street, the Empire State Building and other aboveground city landmarks for years as a response to the World Trade Center attacks.

A police official likened the "Torch Teams" to "Hercules Teams" with MetroCards. In this age of heightened security, commuters and keen canines will share the underground world of mass transit.

"It's a very good idea. It's like a deterrent. It's going to make me feel safer, much safer, yes it will. It's a good idea," said commuter Patricia Knight Williams.

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[AnObsoleteMan]

NYPD- biggest and baddest gang in new york

[DarthVantos]

Police state

[754GLENMORE]

Martial Law the condition of the brain to accept police state

[MMA94NYC]

@Vietboy1st the only gay here is you

[jaf4417]

@TheDreadhead85 START???

Its here brother, now.

Shame on these coward men, what are they guarding against? Planes flying into buildings? Good luck with that.

[TheDreadhead85]

the start of the police state

[Vietboy1st]

this is why NYc is gay. They should do that in the ghetto also lol.

[staver76]

What the fuck was wrong with pistols and discreetness?

[RedFang4]

Those are M4's

dumb bitch

[agent4051]

I feel safer when I see them in the sub ways, because I know the likelihood of me being mugged drops about 100%.

[junkers1337]

Yet there are still crazy people that get on the sub every night.

[nycwiseguy91]

Yea that's not an MP5 that's and M4