Discussing whether or not NYC needs this extra homeland security money is just as rediculous a discussion as discussing how long the earth is until you reach the end and fall off.

The entire homeland security dept. serves no purpose other than the hand out no-bid contracts to large corporations. Now there are no more contracts to hand out in NYC, so they will move on and do the same in other parts of the country. NYC never needed any of these things in the first place and it will make absolutely no difference in how safe NYC is. It's just a big waste of tax money, but then again so is almost everything that the Federal government uses our tax money for. Maybe they can take some money and actually do useful things like fix the roads, clean up the dirty streets, fix the schools, etc. Spend it on our infrastructure and stop wasting it.