Garbage trucks to block possible Times Square truck attacks
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}New York City's iconic New Year's Eve celebration will be surrounded by sanitation vehicles to stop truck-driving attackers like those in Germany and France.
The 65 garbage collection and sand trucks along Times Square's perimeter are meant to stop would-be assailants from plowing trucks into the crowd of 1 million people.
New York Police Department Chief of Patrol Carlos Gomez said Thursday that 100 patrol cars also will be used as blocker vehicles.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Officials say they regularly adapt their security measures based on world events. They say there are no known, credible threats against the gathering.
A Dec. 19 attack in Berlin killed 12 people. A July 14 attack in Nice, France, killed 86.
New York police say they'll deploy 7,000 officers, bomb-sniffing dogs and heavily armed counterterrorism units.