re: #317 jamesfirecat

The $200 million is the security costs as figured by the NYPD which would have to incur those costs to oversee the security for the terror trials. Only a small portion would be infrastructure related; the bulk would be manpower costs - increased overtime, deployment of Hercules and Atlas teams (counter-terrorism units that are the elite of the elite in the ESU (NYC’s version of SWAT). It doesn’t include economic hardship for businesses affected by street closures around the courthouses, or increased time spent to get through the area in congestion or delays.

And the KSM trial is expected to go for 4-5 years. That’s a serious chunk of change for someone that both Holder and Obama have said will never be released regardless of what happens at trial, which says it all right there. The tribunal system, which is useful for other terrorists should have been used for KSM and the others, and it wouldn’t have resulted in the additional costs to NY which can’t afford it with a multibillion dollar deficit and would need the feds to pony up the money.