Former Boston police commissioner questions New Orleans security preparations [Video]

Questions about security preparations are being raised as the investigation into a terrorist attack in New Orleans that left 15 people dead continues. In the years since the Marathon Bombing, the threat of terrorism is always part of security planning for large events, and that was certainly the case for First Night this week. Experts said one of the missing security measures on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter are the steel columns, which are known as bollards. Bollards act as a shield to temporarily prevent vehicles from entering an area. They were being replaced, ahead of the Super Bowl next month. Police cars were stationed there, in place of the bollards, but video shows the terrorist driving around the blockade.Ed Davis was the Boston police commissioner during the marathon bombings. He said the decision to use police cruisers was unacceptable, especially because it happened days after an attack at …