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The Minneapolis Police Department started preparing for the Super Bowl even before the city was accepted to host the event.<\/p>\n
For years, dozens of planning groups have been putting together a plan that now involves more than 80 operators watching the stadium and surrounding areas from an undisclosed location that has been fitted with large screens that can monitor fans in real-time.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s got their own individual lane of traffic where they\u2019re monitoring and controlling and keeping up with what their purview is. And we have a common operating platform that we can electronically talk to each other and post information back and forth,\u201d<\/em> Minneapolis Police Commander Bruce Folkens told the\u00a0Twin Cities Pioneer Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n In addition, 2,000 out of the 3,000 officers working the event have been given an app that allows them to record video and send it to the command center, where officers can shift resources to respond to an incident faster.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen there are problems, we have people here who can make decisions and mitigate any type of issues before they become big issues,\u201d<\/em> Folkens told the Pioneer Press.<\/p>\n From the command center, operators can control more than 2,000 fixed cameras around the city and see the real-time movement of officers on the ground.<\/p>\n The area around the stadium will also be surrounded by more than two miles of fencing and concrete barriers. Fans will have to enter the perimeter through metal detectors and submit to bag checks. Once inside, fans will also be met with more than 100 bomb-sniffing dogs, helicopters, and military-style vehicles.<\/p>\n \u201cOur world has changed, and we really need to make sure that, as a symbol of our freedom for Americans to get together and enjoy pastimes, we need to make sure that safety is first and foremost,\u201d<\/em> Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said, according to the\u00a0Pioneer Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n It has been tradition for Philadelphia Eagles fans to celebrate their team by climbing light poles in the city. In response, police have used Crisco to grease up poles before major sporting events to prevent fans from attempting to climb the poles.<\/p>\n Before the Eagles won the NFC title game against the Vikings last week, city workers greased poles with Crisco, but it did not stop fans.<\/p>\n \u201cUnfortunately it became a thing ahead of time so people thought we were daring them to topple the grease,\u201d<\/em> said Sargent Eric Gripp, a police spokesman, according to the\u00a0Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Many fans have seen the greased poles as a challenge. In fact, the city is home to the annual\u00a0Grease Pole Climbing Competition<\/a>, where residents compete to see who can climb a 30 foot pole greased with lard to win prizes of meat, cheese, and money.<\/p>\n This year, the Philadelphia Police Department announced they will no longer use Crisco to keep fans from climbing light poles in the event that the Eagles win the Superbowl. Instead, police are coating the poles with something more slippery this year.<\/p>\n While police did not divulge the secret ingredient they will be using to grease up their poles, Police Commissioner Richard Ross told reporters at a news conference Wednesday that residents will find it\u00a0\u201cfar more difficult\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to make the climb.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t tell you that there won\u2019t still be attempts, but I just would suspect that some of them would be far more difficult than they were with the Crisco attempts,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Ross said, according to the Inquirer.<\/p>\n However, Eagles running backs coach Duce Staley said that, with their announcement, police have actually made climbing the poles more enticing this year.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re actually inviting fans when you say,\u00a0\u2018You can\u2019t do it.\u2019\u00a0Because our fans, the way they think, if you tell them you can’t go up there it just makes them think,\u00a0\u2018OK, how can we get up there.\u2019\u00a0They\u2019ll find a way to do it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Stanley said, according to Reuben Frank, who covers Eagles for NBC Sports Philadelphia.<\/p>\n Duce Staley on Philly officials greasing lamp poles: “You\u2019re actually inviting fans when you say, ‘You can\u2019t do it.’ Because our fans, the way they think, if you tell them you can’t go up there it just makes them think, \u2018OK, how can we get up there.\u2019 They\u2019ll find a way to do it.”<\/p>\n \u2014 Reuben Frank (@RoobNBCS) January 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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