Times Square packed with security for New Year’s

By Tom Hays

Published December 30, 2012 4:39pm ET

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Times Square packed with security for New Year’s — FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2011 file photo, a police officer walks through a frozen zone in New York Cityâs Times Square as revelers wave balloons in anticipation of midnight. The New York City police use an array of security measures for the event that turns the "Crossroads of the World" into a massive street party in the heart of Manhattan. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) | John Minchillo

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is assigning thousands of extra patrols in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, but they won’t all be in plain sight.

There will be uniformed officers, bomb-sniffing dogs and heavily armed counterterrorism teams. But there also will be plainclothes officers, assigned to blend into the crowd.

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