NYPD arrests two armed suspects who posed a threat to Jewish community

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : According to reports from federal and local law enforcement, Brown had wanted to travel to the Big Apple with the purpose of purchasing a firearm.
46% : NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a statement that the threat Brown and Mahrer posed to the Jewish community was uncovered Friday by state and federal law enforcement. 'By early Saturday, the NYPD's exhaustive intelligence-gathering led to the arrest by sharp-eyed MTA police officers of two individuals entering Penn Station, in Manhattan, and the seizures of a large hunting knife, an illegal Glock 17 firearm and 30-round magazine, and several other items,' Sewell said.

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