NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade, one of the world’s largest celebrations of Caribbean culture, is set to step off Monday with increased security after a fatal shooting at last year’s event .

The police department is sending thousands of officers plus helicopters and drones and using barricades to create a “moat” between marchers and the many spectators lining the nearly 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) Brooklyn parade route, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

It will be the department’s largest deployment of the year, Tisch said, with more officers assigned to safeguard the event than New Year’s Eve in Times Square or the July Fourth fireworks on the East River.

“We are not going to allow one or two individuals to spoil the festivities,” Mayor Eric Adams said

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