How To Be a CA

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They pop up daily around NYC and they arrive in black Suburbans, armor-plated vests, and 9mm submachine guns ? The main purpose of the Hercules Teams is to disrupt the planning of terrorists and publicly intimidate people ? The police commissioner even has a Secured Telephone Unit that encrypts his calls to the White House and the Pentagon ? All this is because NYC is the main target ? According to police commissioner Ray Kelly, he had to institute all these precautions because the federal government wasn't gonna do them and he couldn't sit idly by ? In addition to the counterterrorism unit, the intelligence unit of the NYPD has been completely revamped and is now headed by high level people from Washington?particularly a lieutenant general from the Pentagon named Frank Libutti who heads the counterterrorism unit and a spymaster from the CIA named David Cohen who heads the intelligence division ? The main job for Frank Libutti as head of the counterterrorism unit is threat assessment on landmarks, public and private properties, and the city's infrastructure ? In addition to threat assessment the counterterrorism unit does independent intelligence analysis on techniques used by terrorists and when intelligence is found and confirmed it will be relayed to all necessary agencies ? Cohen had to re-create and give new relevance to the intelligence division...