Saturday, October 12, 2013

Is New York Prepared For A Nairobi-Style Mall Attack?

Scott Henrichsen/The Daily Beast

Ray Kelly: New York Is Prepared For A Nairobi-Style Mall Attack -- The Daily Beast

N.Y.C. Police Chief Ray Kelly says Kenyan officials didn’t handle last month’s terror attack correctly—and revealed what he’s doing to protect American targets.

Last month’s siege of an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi is very much on the mind of New York’s outgoing police commissioner, Ray Kelly.

On Friday, New York’s top law-enforcement official will host a special training session for senior managers—known as a tabletop exercise—to prepare for what would happen if a small team of active shooters seized a large shopping area in New York City as terrorists from al Qaeda’s Somalia affiliate did last month at the Westgate mall outside Nairobi.

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My Comment: No one can ever be prepared for a "Nairobi-style" mall attack .... the only hope is how will law enforcement respond .... and the golden rule is the "faster the better".

3 comments:

Keeping Able said...

No.

One can prepare as best one can for such events. And when an organization such as the NYPD or, in our situation, the SFPD, prepares as best as it can, the results more than justify the effort. To quote FDR, "We face the future with courage and confidence. We are Americans."

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Unknown said...

Goofy questions like these are made to instill fear more than prepare the American public. Please treat this question like a coupon- cut it out.