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The New York Police Department's counterterrorism portion is the golden modular for large cities crossed the U.S. successful combating home terrorism, an adept said.
Retired Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Lieutenant Jeff Wenniger weighed successful connected New York City's elite radical of counterterror officers and however the Big Apple became the planetary exemplary successful the combat against terror.
"They are mounting the barroom for quality and counterterrorism passim the satellite actually," Wenniger said, pointing to the department's integration of quality and counterterrorism nether Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Weiner since 2023.
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Deputy Commissioner, Intelligence, Counterterrorism astatine New York Police Department Rebecca Weiner attends the play briefing astatine City Hall by Mayor Eric Adams astir the ongoing programs successful New York City. ( Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
In the Big Apple, instrumentality enforcement upped the ante pursuing the attacks connected Sept. 11, 2001.
According to the NYPD, their Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau is the largest municipal cognition of its benignant successful the U.S.
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The Bureau combines the efforts of quality analysts, counterterrorism officers, and liaison programs that run internationally.
NYPD Counterterrorism officers basal extracurricular an arriving New York City subway car. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Wenniger, who served for 33 years with the LAPD and intimately collaborated with the department's counterterrorism efforts, emphasized the value of multi-agency practice and real-time quality sharing.
"It’s astir knowing and keeping your digit connected the pulse of what’s happening globally and identifying emerging trends," helium said.
Wenniger said counterterror squads measure imaginable threats by focusing connected cardinal indicators, specified arsenic societal media, blogs and online communication.
The FBI office successful Washington, D.C., and FBI director, Kash Patel. (Anna Moneymaker/Kent Nishimura via Reuters and Getty Images)
The counterterrorism portion works intimately with the FBI done the Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF).
The FBI operates implicit 200 JTTFs crossed the United States, including astatine slightest 1 successful each of the FBI’s 56 tract offices. Most large cities person counterterrorism units that enactment alongside federal, section and authorities officials to code and combat home violent threats.
NYPD Counterterrorism officers basal extracurricular St. Patrick's Cathedral arsenic visitors hold successful enactment for mass. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)
Wenniger, who besides served arsenic the Officer successful Charge of the LAPD’s Rampart Gang Unit, said that astir palmy counterterrorism efforts spell unnoticed by the public.
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"The successes of quality and counterterrorism spell silent," helium said. "When things are silent, that's success."
Fox News Digital has reached retired to the NYPD for comment.
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