Sugar Bowl security to equal Super Bowl: New Orleans police

(The Hill) -- The New Orleans Police Department revealed Thursday that the annual Sugar Bowl will feature heightened security after a man drove directly into a crowd on Bourbon Street earlier this week, leaving 15 dead.

“We are going to have absolutely hundreds of officers and staff lining our streets," New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Thursday morning in an interview on NBC's "TODAY."

“We are staffing up at the same level if not more so than we were prepared for Super Bowl," she added.