Long Island lawmakers are demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security after downstate New York?s anti-terror funding was cut by 40 percent.

Officials say the cuts equal $84 million less than last year for police training and chemical and biological weapons training for New York City, Long Island and Westchester. According to lawmakers, New York takes a hit while cities like Omaha, Nebraska and Charlotte, North Carolina are seeing increases of more than 60 percent.

Many area residents say they don?t feel safe and believe the funding is going to the wrong cities. Others say government officials do the best they can, and money allocated elsewhere must need to go there.