All Gov – by David Wallechinsky, Danny Biederman
You would think that when the U.S. government determines how much money should be spent to protect various cities and metropolitan areas, it would take into account not just the size of the city, but also its history as a target. The attacks of September 11, 2001, were centered on New York City and Washington DC, and the terrorists boarded flights two flights from Boston, one from Washington and one from Newark. Three of the flights were headed to Los Angeles and one to San Francisco.
Sure enough, when one consults the amounts awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Urban Areas Security Initiative grants program (UASI) to large urban areas deemed “high threat,” five of these six cities are among the top six recipients: New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, San Francisco and Newark. But Boston, which was struck by another terrorist attack on April 15, is only in tenth place…behind Houston, Dallas and Philadelphia.
Here is the list of the 20 cities receiving the largest urban security grants:
- New York City ($1.4 billion)
- Los Angeles/Long Beach ($644 million)
- DC Metro ($568 million)
- Chicago ($478 million)
- San Francisco Bay Area ($359 million)
- Jersey City/Newark ($300 million)
- Houston ($297 million)
- Philadelphia ($197 million)
- Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington ($186 million)
- Boston ($173 million)
- San Diego ($134 million)
- Detroit ($133 million)
- Miami ($125 million)
- Anaheim/Santa Ana ($123 million)
- Seattle ($122 million)
- Atlanta ($114 million)
- Baltimore ($105 million)
- Phoenix ($94 million)
- St. Louis ($81 million)
- Denver ($74 million)
There are currently 31 high-threat, high-density urban areas that are eligible for funding. Allocation of the awards is based on DHS’s “risk methodology,” which involves analyzing “the relative risk of terrorism faced by the 100 most populous metropolitan statistical areas in the United States.”
UASI is one of five projects in DHS’s Homeland Security Grant Program. That umbrella program spent nearly $1.8 billion in FY 2010. The total funding of UASI in FY 2012 was $490.4 million, which was distributed through 22 grants.
Why is Detroit on the list for $133 million? What could a terror attack possibly do there that the crashing economy hasn’t already done?
Are they afraid someone will blow up an empty building and save them the cost of demolishing it?
Yea, I’m curious about that, too. They don’t even have enough money to keep a police force going. The place is a ghost town. There’s nothing worth destroying, everyone is trying to move away from there and no one wants to live there. It makes no sense.
Maybe they are telling us a list of cities they are going to do their false flags in? Hence the money??
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Not surprisingly, a number of these are port cities.
True. Which is why we need to take our ports back and why the government fears us taking our ports back and will label anyone doing so as terrorists.