united states in a period of time than we've ever seen before. so i think the propaganda machine that this adversary has pushed out is effective. we have more foreign fighters than we've ever seen before, and probably a population of homegrown violent extremists within our country than we've ever seen before. so it just makes sense that we're on a higher level of alert. >> so yours is one of the major cities that could be a potential target here. also one of the cities that's on heightened alert. from your post, what's different this year in how you're hedging -- handling it and preparing? >> we definitely opened up the lines of communication with our fbi partners, with our department of homeland security partners and we activated our fusion center. so the information sharing, the situational awareness of what's happening around the country and our ability to respond and make deployment decisions on that is