Texas DPS chief Steve McCraw says his agency “did not fail” at Uvalde school shooting

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw gives a statement at a Public Safety Commission hearing in Austin on Thursday. (Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune)

Weeks after Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said he would resign if his troopers had “any culpability” in the botched police response to the Uvalde school shooting, he told families calling for his resignation Thursday that the agency has not failed as an institution.

“If DPS as an institution — as an institution — failed the families, failed the school or failed the community of Uvalde, then absolutely I need to go,” McCraw said during a heated Public Safety Commission meeting. “But I can tell you this right now: DPS as an institution, right now, did not fail the community — plain and simple.”