20 U.S. Cities that Receive the Most Homeland Security Funding for Being “High Threat

You would think that when the U.S. government determines how much money should be spent to protect various cities and metropolitan areas, it would take into account not just the size of the city, but also its history as a target. The attacks of September 11, 2001, were centered on New York City and Washington DC, and the terrorists boarded flights two flights from Boston, one from Washington and one from Newark. Three of the flights were headed to Los Angeles and one to San Francisco.

Sure enough, when one consults the amounts awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Urban Areas Security Initiative grants program (UASI) to large urban areas deemed “high threat,” five of these six cities are among the top six recipients: New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, San Francisco and Newark. But Boston, which was struck by another terrorist attack on April 15, is only in tenth place…behind Houston, Dallas and Philadelphia.

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