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walking to the barrier line and watching the race, you don t want to scare them off. this is always been a great day in the city. we ve run this 116 times without incident. and you know, it is patriot s day in the city. it is usually a fun day, a family day. that is the way we want to keep it. bill: you doubled the number of police officers. you have at least, what, 500 plain clothes officers at the finish line, at the starting. right. bill: what was your chief concern trying to manage this today? our biggest concern, last year at the race we were more less concerned about someone interfering with the runners. we never thought someone would try to put a bomb down in the city. this year we have a lot more officers working in the crowd, hyped the barriers. making sure nothing is out of the ordinary. we re looking for the public s help too. that if they see something, say something out of the ordinary. you know, i have all the confidence in the men and women of our department, to make