NYPD's planned "ring of steel"

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/28/2007-09-28_feds_give_city_3m_for_radiation_detector.html

Feds give city $3M for radiation detectors
Friday, September 28th 2007, 4:00 AM

The city has won a $3.25 million federal grant to help fund the NYPD's plan to ring the city with radiation detectors, officials announced yesterday.

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The detectors will be placed as far as 50 miles outside the five boroughs to identify dirty bombs and other threats on major routes into New York, NYPD brass said. "This is the first city in America that's going to have this program," NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said of the project, which will cost $40million to complete.

Last month, a dirty-bomb scare triggered a massive search for radioactive material within a 50-mile radius of the city. NYPD choppers, boats and special trucks searched for radioactive devices for about 24 hours. The response was ratcheted down after the NYPD found nothing to substantiate the terror threat.

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The new radiation detectors will work in conjunction with the NYPD's planned "ring of steel" - a system of hundreds of police cameras, license plate readers and street barriers that will be used to safeguard the Financial District in lower Manhattan.

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1. And welcome to the police state... funded by your tax dollars.

Don't you just feel so safe. Interesting to put this circle around a financial district... Are we saying money is more important than people.. obviously.