Originally Posted by
JodyH
Alpine has a huge Fed presence for such a small town.
Fed courthouse with Marshals and FPS, USBP station, Fed F&WS, ICE, DEA, NPS and several others.
There's also Alpine PD, DPS, Sheriff, Game Wardens, TPWD Rangers, a Texas Ranger, Sul Ross campus police and several others.
I bet it was a multi-jurisdictional clusterfuck because everybody could be on location in minutes and nobody was going to take the time to organize or setup a command structure in a school shooting situation.
Huge opportunity for blue on blue.