The council, in the first of multiple oversight hearings, is expected to hear from NOPD and Department of Public Works officials about planning that preceded the deadly attack, centering around questions of how Jabbar was able to evade defenses to tear down the famous party thoroughfare.

The bollards on Bourbon Street were installed in 2017 following the 2016 terrorist truck attack in Nice, France, where a man claiming to be part of the Islamic State killed 86 people and injured over 400 by driving a large truck through a pedestrian mall.