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Budget in the nypd spent on that area. during my time as police commissioner, the threat remained so significant we increased the staffing from 1,000 to almost 1600 personnel employed full time to deal with the continuing threat stream of issues around terrorism. so it s a significant concern that it s even being proposed. since 9/11, new york city has been the target of 21 terror lots acourse cording to commissioner o neill. what are the main reasons that the federal government funds local police terror units, what does it do? particularly here in new york, there s no argument that we are the number one target in the united states, and certainly one of the top targets for terrorists in the world. it funds, the federal funds here help to supply equipment, they help to pay overtime, so much of what the public sees out there, and what they don t see, the awareness system, the cameras, license plate scanner, radiation ....
Consumer confidence, inflation s fairly stable and so on. what will this do? how will this impact us in. well you, know, it is ironic, you know, it reminds me of last year where you know, just when it s like that jaws thing, just when you think it s safe to go back into the water, here comes another global disaster. in the short term, it will be a big shock. in the longer term, even medium term, it s harder to say, right, because you know actually a perverse effect of economic disasters is they can be stimulative. and so you could see some stimulus impact out of this. do you mean by that things like tools for recovery which will require plant like caterpillar here to supply equipment. right. you have to rebuild. rebuilding japan is going to be one heck of an infrastructure project for japan and for the world. thank you very much four your insights. i ll be right back with continuing coverage on the disaster in the pacific. ....