re: Massive security fail on part of City of NO. And DHS as well.

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nothing like this has happened before

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They do, but are in the process of being overhauled and updated for the Super Bowl, and many were not in place.

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Ah, well that’s all time shitty timing b

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Maybe but that’s how you do that.

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NOLA agrees; they have had a few types of removable bollards. As explained, the movable middle bollards on Bourbon are being replaced, there are still the green bollards there.

They parked a unit in front of the missing bollards, but did miss that someone would hook a u-turn and squeeze behind where the unit was parked past several cops that were protecting the area.

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I get that

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Apparently not.


Should LSU encase the parade grounds in bollards each gameday?

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so let’s say there are bollards everywhere - this guy just walks around the FQ all day planting IEDs, which he may have done How do you prevent that?

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You may be shocked to learn we have a pretty robust security system with human patrols, trained dogs, security cameras being monitored and other technology (see the gun locating tech used during MG).


No one’s expecting perfection - just pointing out that blocking the street while leaving the sidewalks open is a pretty obvious half measure.

Seeing the video of how sparse the crowd was at that hour compared to earlier does begin to justify a laxing of the security presence but this attitude of we can’t stop everything so why try anything is pretty dumb

The nut drove around a police car onto the sidewalk...

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You realize that they can’t block sidewalks, right? The road was blocked.

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Yes. They can block sidewalks.

So when has a terrorist driven over people on Bourbon Street and got out firing a gun into the crowd of people?

To your premise, you are correct. More could have been done to make Bourbon Street safer. This isn't what people want to hear today, but to what end? Where does it stop?

Like you and others have said, he could've achieved the same result along Canal street, or another French Quarter street, or at any of the other hundreds of mass gatherings that existed last night. In a free society, the reality is, there are hundreds if not thousands of target rich environments for wackos with a vehicle.

Oh I’m sorry I didn’t realize you were intentionally ignoring other very similar, if not exact type scenarios that have happened across the globe. But it’s never happened in Nola so nobody should expect Nola leadership to do frick all.