http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/05/19/nyc-keeps-anti-terror-grant-money -upstate-cities-cut-out/
* May 19, 2011, 12:50 PM ET NYC Keeps Anti-Terror Grant Money, Upstate Cities Cut Out By Devlin Barrett http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-NS969_0502ny_F_20110502123132.jp g Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal Port Authority Police patrol the perimeter of Ground Zero earlier this month. The New York area will see some reduction in counter-terrorism grants in the upcoming federal budget, but the city has avoided the major cuts hitting dozens of other municipalities as a result of Congressional belt-tightening, homeland security officials said Thursday. The Department of Homeland Security just announced anti-terror grants for cities and states. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has long complained that other cities facing much less risk than his get too large a share of that grant money. New York City is set to receive $151.5 million from a program for urban areas at risk of attack, the same amount it got last year, while overall funding for the program was cut 20 percent. Because of those cuts, DHS decided to eliminate 33 cities from the program, including Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. New York City area lawmakers have long sought to reduce the number of cities receiving DHS grant money, saying more should be steered toward major metropolitan areas. Bloomberg and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-Westchester) welcomed the change, even though it came as a result of budget cuts, not a shift in department policy. "With resources scarce, it's even more important to stop thinly spreading the money around the country without taking risk into account,'' Bloomberg said in a statement. The New York area will still see cuts from other, smaller grant programs, including a 10% reduction in money to protect its ports, and a 20% decrease in the amount the state receives. Both those percentages are smaller than the cuts facing the grant program as a whole. Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security program, praised the agency for sparing New York the worst of the cuts. "In the programs where New York did see a reduction, that reduction was the smallest of any of the highest risk areas," said King. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
