(The Hill) -- The New Orleans Police Department revealed Thursday that the yearly Sugar Bowl volition diagnostic heightened information aft a antheral drove straight into a crowd connected Bourbon Street earlier this week, leaving 15 dead.

“We are going to person perfectly hundreds of officers and unit lining our streets," New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Thursday greeting successful an interrogation connected NBC's "TODAY."

“We are staffing up astatine the aforesaid level if not much truthful than we were prepared for Super Bowl," she added. 

The assemblage shot crippled betwixt the University of Georgia and the University of Notre Dame was primitively scheduled for New Year's Day but was postponed successful airy of the incident. The teams are now acceptable to quadrate off Thursday day for the quarterfinal crippled promising to gully a multitude of fans from crossed the country.

Kirkpatrick specifically highlighted Bourbon Street arsenic an country that volition beryllium heavy patrolled aft 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar reportedly utilized a motortruck from car-renting app Turo to implicit the attack. Jabbar was fatally changeable by constabulary aft helium opened occurrence connected the officers.

The FBI is investigating the lawsuit arsenic a “terrorist attack” aft uncovering an Islamic State (ISIS) extremist radical emblem connected the driver’s car. Little is known astir the victims.

Police accidental determination was nary grounds starring them to judge an onslaught would person occurred successful the French Quarter connected New Year’s Day. 

"There was nary accusation that we had and truthful thing on those lines," Kirkpatrick said Thursday.

Lawmakers representing the Pelican State rapidly condemned the onslaught and encouraged residents to dispersed emotion alternatively of “evil.”

“Our city, state, and state are hurting,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) wrote connected social level X. 

“I privation to convey our instrumentality enforcement officers who ran towards information to support lives," helium added. "May our corporate New Year’s solution beryllium to dispersed emotion successful the look of evil."

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R-La.) said Wednesday that the crippled should person been pushed to Friday.

"This is an progressive transgression country and they conscionable finished removing immoderate of the bodies and they inactive haven’t removed each of them,” she said, adding, “I inactive deliberation that we astir apt request to hold an other day."