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Well, and we also have a much heavier deployment than we've had on normal routine days. >> i've been struck over the last several days about how much we are hearing from police departments like yours, like in new york city, and also from federal officials as well about how concerned they are and how much security they're putting in place. i'm wondering who the audience is for this message? is it the public? do you want to reassure the public that you're on it and things are going to be okay or is it a message to people who might want to do harm themselves? >> it's really a prevention message. ...

Research in this area shows that you have right up in the shooting you have a spike of discussions of gun control. this was true after the assassination attempt of congresswoman giffords and after aurora, then in the following weeks, the discussion of the policy fades. and one of the political scientists involved in this calls it, of course, the issue attention cycle, and i want to read one of these remarks for you to think about. he talks about the media's intense interest in and subsequent boredom with a public policy problem is known as an issue-attention cycle. a dramatic issue prompts new...

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