With the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras coming, Gov. Jeff Landry is using the emergency order from the New Year’s attack on Bourbon Street to remove the homeless from downtown.
NOPJF, a nonprofit organization, has contracted Teneo to lead a public safety assessment of the city. The Teneo team will be led by risk and security expert William J. Bratton.
An examination of visuals, witness accounts and city planning documents reveals that security lapses in New Orleans left crucial gaps on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day.
The New Orleans City Council has launched an investigation to examine the city's current barriers, which include the Heald HT2 Matador system and the newly acquired RCS8040 S10 removable bollards.
Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton will review New Orleans security vulnerabilities and recommend ways to shore them up as officials scramble after a deadly Bourbon Street attack last week to ensure the city is protected.
New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said she had hired former New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton as a consultant during a tense city council meeting Wednesday as officials and residents sought answers over security lapses after a terror attack that killed 14 people in the French Quarter.
"New Orleanians have been enjoying an upsurge in quality bakeries for over 10 years now, but Ms. Guerin brings something new to her hometown: phenomenal pastries in conversation with Black history," the NYT wrote.
President Joe Biden is heading to New Orleans as the city reels from the deadly New Year’s attack in which an Army veteran plowed a truck into revelers, killing 14 and injuring 30 more.
The coroner's office said all the victims died from blunt force injuries. The suspect in the attack, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was fatally shot in a firefight with police.
An Ocean City, New Jersey, native and Army veteran was among the dozens of people injured in the deadly New Year's Day terror attack in New Orleans.
New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says she has hired former New York Police Commissioner William J
New York should be hardening vulnerable public spaces. Instead, the city relies on temporary measures and good luck — leaving us little better prepared than New Orleans. Last week’s New Year ...