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New Orleans' astir celebrated thoroughfare could soon spot sweeping changes if metropolis leaders travel done connected bold caller information recommendations aft a New Year’s Day onslaught that killed 14 and injured dozens.
On Monday, the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation (NOPJF) released a connection astir a large information reappraisal conducted by Teneo Risk, a planetary information steadfast led by erstwhile NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton.
The study is blunt. Bourbon Street is dangerously vulnerable, and unless large changes are made, the metropolis remains exposed to aboriginal attacks.
Authorities patrol Bourbon Street aft it was reopened successful New Orleans Jan. 2, 2024. Multiple radical were killed aft a antheral rammed his car into crowds of New Year’s Eve revelers connected Bourbon Street. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
The existent layout of Bourbon Street makes it casual for a vehicle-ramming onslaught to hap again. The study recommends a hard perimeter setup that would lone let exigency vehicles, deliveries and edifice drop-offs astatine definite times.
According to the report, "Bourbon Street is highly susceptible to a conveyance ramming onslaught immoderate clip of year," citing constrictive sidewalks, predominant pedestrian spillover into the thoroughfare and a deficiency of imperishable protective barriers.
The steadfast besides said the Department of Homeland Security’s "SEAR 1" rating, fixed to Mardi Gras 2025 for the archetypal time, should beryllium made permanent. That standing brought much national resources to New Orleans this year, including other information instrumentality and personnel. The study claims those resources were indispensable to protecting the nationalist and should beryllium successful spot each year.
In a metropolis of astir 400,000 residents, Mardi Gras play tin easy invited implicit 1 cardinal visitors from astir the world.
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In summation to the Bourbon Street changes, the study highlights weaknesses successful exigency effect access, serviceman staffing, coordination betwixt agencies and the city’s quality capabilities.
Teneo recovered quality gathering by the New Orleans Police Department remains mostly reactive and lacks precocious tools and ceremonial coordination protocols.
Pedestrians locomotion down Bourbon Street aft it is reopened successful New Orleans pursuing a deadly panic attack. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
The study was based connected extended research, including tract visits, papers reviews and interviews with metropolis officials, instrumentality enforcement and assemblage members. Teneo observed information operations firsthand during the 2025 Super Bowl and Mardi Gras 2025 and utilized those events to measure real-time vulnerabilities.
Fourteen radical were killed erstwhile a antheral drove his motortruck down Bourbon Street New Year's Day. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
While the connection for a imperishable pedestrian portion could rise concerns of residents and concern owners, Teneo said the alteration is the champion mode to support pedestrians and forestall different attack. The study explains that immoderate different alternate would inactive permission parts of Bourbon Street exposed.
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The NOPJF said successful its statement, "We Have Not Forgotten," and it seeks to grant the victims of the Bourbon Street onslaught successful its findings.
Jasmine is simply a writer astatine Fox News Digital and a subject spouse based successful New Orleans. Stories tin beryllium sent to [email protected]
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