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Things. comparable incidents of knife attacks. it means that it looks like the previous one by scenario, but we cannot determine the motives of the perpetrator. so for this reason, the authorities in great britain are sending the message that the scenario that they've seen on that bridge, which by the way is telling many experts that the british public is reacting differently because of that knowledge from past cases and the british security forces have reacted much faster than before. but of course they have to wait for two things. number one to determine the identity of the person and the mi...

Originated. and as we talked, england has a lot of knife attacks. and you could have a dispute, you could have two people fighting that spills out and then a stabbing, or you could have somebody on a homicidal spree that's not necessarily terrorism either. it could be a lot of things as yet. the clear thing from erin's reporting and from the live feed you're showing, chris, is the response of the metropolitan police. what they have is what they call a specialist firearms command, and those officers are armed. they call them sco-19. they've changed the name over the years. but those units, 019,...

And that right now gives us a framework around this that counterterrorism specialists would say, this fits the profile of most of our knife attacks that we're seeing here that is not individual criminal attacks. >> and it brings to the point, a very scary point for a lot of people, what evan kohlmann was talking about here in studio just a short time ago, that you can't possibly know or predict everyone who may be a threat, you call it a known wolf, but you can also see something very unsophisticated, a man with a knife but an agenda, maybe jihad, who is not concerned about his own health or w...

With their families where they're most vulnerable. what goes into the preparedness of these cities, when you think about london specifically recently, the uk terror threat was downgraded from severe to substantial, there has been an uptick in knife attacks in and around london. of course, as i mentioned earlier, that london bridge attack that happened back in 2017. many people reminded of that today. what goes into the preparedness for cities like this at this time of year? >> i'll give you three things that i think are crucial at this point. taking it up a level from the tactical things that ...

Related attacks with atf. and just the way assaults occur and terrorist bombings and all of the things they've dealt with in firearms related matters, they have a lot of knife attacks and sharp-edged instruments attacks in england as a whole. much more than we're used to in the united states. we have more prevalence of firearms, they do not. their firearms laws are very strict. so there's a lot of knife attacks. police officers are often attacked with knives, machetes, axes. and it's a weapon of choice. and also as clint said, terrorists have used that weapon as well as firearms, vehicles, bom...