People enjoying themselves in the moments later. Chaos, the Cell Phone Video huge crowds of people literally running for their lives scrambling to find cover as a barrage of gunshots let off near bourbon and Orleans Street at least five people wounded by the gunfire at this hour we do not know the extent of their injuries, however, according to local Reports None of the injuries are lifethreatening the newer Lanes Police Department says it has detained one person in searching for others but its not clear any connection that those people have to the shooting, New Orleans like many other cities across the country of a Police Officer Shortage and a spike in crime this is how the president of the Police Association of New Orleans recently frame the issue. New orleans should be at 1600 commissioned officers and were about A Thousand that puts a 60 of what we should be we are so shortstaffed that we have a backlog of calls and they have to be prioritized but people may be waiting hours as th