A security expert claims authorities in New Orleans made several errors that allowed a gunman to kill 14 people and injure dozens more during a New Year’s Eve attack on Bourbon Street. The expert argues the police department became complacent after successfully handling previous large crowds, failing to implement more robust security measures.
Authorities in New Orleans committed several errors that made it easy for an unhinged madman to plow into New Year’s revelers early Wednesday — and may have gotten too “lackadaisical” after having handled large crowd sizes in the past, a security expert told The Post.
Special forces soldier shot himself in head moments before Cybertruck bombing — as disturbing images of exploded car released “They needed to push the perimeter much further out,” Emerson explained. “You want at least one or two blocks in every direction — that’s where your perimeter should start.”Creating that big “air gap” would let authorities put uniformed cops, parked police cruisers and other barriers between the perimeter and the terrorist’s intended target — which was, in this case, the tourist-packed party avenue.
The city yanked them out in November as part of a three-month security overhaul meant to rectify what French Quarter Management District head Bob Simms dubbed an “ineffective” system.“The track was always full of crap, beads and doubloons and God knows what else. Not the best idea,” Simms told Nola.com.
SECURITY BLUNDERS NEW ORLEANS BOURBON STREET TERROR ATTACK POLICE RESPONSE
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