Law enforcement ramps up New Year's security measures across the country

Washington — As cities and towns crossed the U.S. hole for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day celebrations, local, authorities and nationalist instrumentality enforcement agencies are connected the lookout for imaginable threats — concerns that are heightened successful the aftermath of the caller Bondi Beach panic attack in Australia and the deadly onslaught connected past year's celebrations connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans.

Lone actors and tiny groups with a scope of ideological motives airs the astir important menace to New Year's Eve celebrations, according to a associated bulletin from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security reviewed by CBS News. 

The assessment, which is done routinely up of ample nationalist gatherings, notes determination is nary specific, credible menace this holiday. But the bulletin describes the persistent hazard of tiny groups of radical "seeking to perpetrate acts of unit motivated by a wide scope of racial, ethnic, political, religious, anti-government, anti-immigration, societal oregon ideological beliefs and grievances."

In New York City, the NYPD has been moving connected information for the Times Square country since past year's festivities, said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. There are "no known circumstantial credible threats" to the celebration, Tisch said Wednesday, but the nationalist should expect to spot "thousands" of NYPD officers successful the area. 

Intelligence teams volition besides beryllium monitoring societal media for threats, Tisch said. Times Square is expecting much than a cardinal visitors from astir the world, she noted, making it "one of the largest and the astir analyzable information operations anyplace successful the world." 

In Las Vegas, Andrew Walsh, undersheriff for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told reporters astatine a quality league this week that the National Guard volition beryllium contiguous successful Vegas, arsenic they person been successful years past.

Recent representation serves arsenic a sobering reminder of however captious it is for instrumentality enforcement to beryllium vigilant. 

Earlier this month, the FBI announced it had foiled an alleged New Year's Eve bombing crippled successful Southern California. The 4 radical who look charges successful the alleged crippled are members of a radical known arsenic the Turtle Island Liberation Front. Attorney General Pam Bondi described the enactment arsenic a "far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group."

Hundreds of National Guard troops person deployed to New Orleans 1 twelvemonth aft the devastating New Year's Day onslaught there, astatine the petition of Louisiana's Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. On Jan. 1, 2025, investigators accidental Shamsud-Din Jabba rammed a pickup motortruck into the assemblage connected Bourbon Street successful New Orleans, sidesplitting 14 radical and leaving galore much injured successful an enactment of terror. The FBI said the attacker, a U.S. Army veteran, was radicalized by ISIS.