"The public is getting complacent,"
 

Law enforcement officials and security experts are warning against the threat of homegrown terrorism as several cases involving alleged American jihadists enter the courts.

"The public is getting complacent," New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tells FOX News. Kelly, who was the police commissioner during the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, has developed a task force of counterterrorism officers trained to spot jihadists.


Although there has not been a major terrorist strike in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001, Kelley says the country cannot let down its guard.
"We can't afford to be complacent in law enforcement, and I don't think we are," Kelly says in the new FOX News documentary, "Jihad, USA," which will air at 9 p.m. ET on March 29.


Several terror-related cases now in the courts highlight this need for continued vigilance, experts say.



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Re: "The public is getting complacent,"
 

Complacency has always been my fear for after 9-11. Americans tend to have very short memories and do not understand the nature of the terrorist threat.

Islamic Militant Terrorists think longer term. It was nothing for them to wait 8 years between their first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center in 1993 and their successful second try in 2001. We didn't understand the significance of the first bombing enough to start the war on terrorism then.

Now just a few years later Americans are buying the line that everything is our fault and if we would just be nice to everybody they would leave us alone. This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of radical Islam.

Re: "The public is getting complacent,"
 

Sad, but true nonetheless.