376. That is the number of cops who showed up at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 and did nothing for over an hour while a school shooter murdered 19 children and two teachers.
That's a lot of cops, especially in a small town in Texas. That there were so many cops to begin with is a testament to the widespread belief that, in the name of public safety, we must spend handsomely on police forces, granting them enormous budgets that far outstrip spending on many other social services. Uvalde may be a sleepy small town, but by god, they were going to be flush with law enforcement, drowning in uniformed police who are armed to the teeth and equipped with expensive military-grade armor and other fancy goodies to keep the public safe.
