Feliz questions Tisch on fan safety at transit hubs and watch parties
Feliz asks about fan safety plans for transit hubs and watch parties. Tisch describes extensive planning for watch parties, transit security, and the need to view all FIFA events through a counterterrorism lens.
It's going to be a rough start to the fiscal year for our overtime.
Just remember that for next year's overtime hearings.
We'll keep that in mind.
Talk to us about the plan for fan safety at transit hubs and also watch parties.
The plans, okay.
So with all of these major events that are going on in New York City, there will be other joyful events going on around them in New York City.
All of those events will require a police presence.
For example, NBA finals watch parties, FIFA watch parties, people taking the subway, using mass transit, going to and from those watch parties.
People going to the events themselves, meaning getting people from New York City to the World Cup as a whole to do in and of itself that requires security.
They're going mostly by bus or by rail, and there's a big screening component and security component there.
So the...
It would be an understatement to say that we have been planning.
We have been like aggressively planning for so many different things that are occurring this summer, not just the main events themselves, but all of the festivities surrounding those events.
And remember, FIFA is an international name and therefore a target.
And so we do not look at FIFA as just a normal event in New York City.
Both the FIFA tournament and the events surrounding FIFA in New York City, the fan zones, the watch parties, those we all have to look at seriously through the counterterrorism lens.