Vehicular attacks are not new. But preventing them has been a big challenge
Vehicular attacks are not new. Whereas security measures at airports and other public venues have been bolstered following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, The Washington Institute's Margolin said that "vehicular attacks are quite hard to stop." The New York Police Department's deputy commissioner of intelligence said at the time that the perpetrator followed the ISIS guidelines "almost exactly to a T." The year prior, a student at Ohio State University in Columbus injured more than a dozen people when he carried out a car and knife attack on campus. After the Islamic State urged its supporters to attack the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2016, New York police deployed sand-filled sanitation trucks, bomb-sniffing dogs and other defenses along streets bordering the parade route. "We did have a car there, we had barriers there, we had officers there, and they still got around," New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Wednesday.
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