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New Orleans attack raises familiar debate: Can Bourbon Street be made safe?
Shock and grief have given way to finger-pointing over whether additional security could have stopped — or mitigated — the ...
New Orleans officials knew risk years before Bourbon Street attack
A confidential report warned that bollards needed to be fixed. New Orleans didn't start to replace them for five years.
NOLA.com21d
New barriers coming to Bourbon Street not designed to stop truck attacks like on New Year's Day
which is why bollards were not in place when Shamsud-Din Jabbar turned onto Bourbon from Canal Street to begin his deadly rampage. The 2017 bollards, manufactured by U.K.-based Heald, are rated ...
NOLA.com21d
How fewer city security measures on Bourbon Street gave attacker an easier path to victims
In 2017, New Orleans officials looked to upgrade the security around the French Quarter, and particularly Bourbon Street, for these potential events as well as an attack with a vehicle driven into ...
How New Orleans failed to protect Bourbon Street from attack, block by block
An examination of visuals, witness accounts and city planning documents reveals that security lapses in New Orleans left ...
The Advocate24d
Bourbon Street barriers were down, being replaced when driver struck dozens in mass attack
A set of security barriers that were installed in 2017 to prevent terrorist attacks along Bourbon Street were being replaced when a driver barreled down the city’s most famous thoroughfare ...