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Apr 07, 2006

Metro Says: Your Security is Your Business

We’ve known for quite a while that Metro isn’t terribly prepared to secure the transit network against terrorist attacks. So bad was the situation late last year that Metro Police Chief Polly Hansen admitted to the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that while she had identified $150 million in needed security upgrades, the transit agency had received but $15 million in grants from the Department of Homeland Security over the three preceding…

 
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