place the nypd utilizes a number of measures on this really important night they have metal detectors in place several years ago after someone was injured in the crowd pin off certain areas so emergency vehicles could get into this enormous crowd. that s worked very, very well for them. once you have the pens, can you put metal detectors out there. they have gun dogs and explosive dogs that are working the crowd. but their biggest strategy is to use a significant uniformed presence. there are heavily armed teams out there. they call them hercules teams that are involved in setting up what they hope to be a hard perimeter around a soft target. so that any terrorist or anybody that s thinking about doing something wrong there will be deterred from doing that. charles: with all of that said, how important is it still for civilians, see