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.

It’s been just a few days since a heavy truck rammed through a crowd on Bourbon Street, killing 14 people, and injuring many more. Not long after the New Orleans catastrophe, reporters found that the street’s new bollards wouldn’t be strong enough to thwart the driver.