The Latest Breaking News from Steven McCraw

Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent millions of dollars this year to support Texas in deterring migrants from entering the country through its border security initiative. Now, some of those efforts are coming under scrutiny amid reports that Texas officers were ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into…

The Office of the Inspector General is investigating the claims, which include pushing small children and women with nursing babies back into the river and turning away a 4-year-old girl who later passed out on the riverbank from the heat.

For many politicians, bureaucrats, cops, lawyers and journalists, the buck didn’t stop anywhere.

DPS is asking lawmakers to approve a $467 million active-shooter facility as a “down payment” for the training academy. “You play like you practice,” Director Steve McCraw said.

‘I’m not trying to get clapped out,’ one Texas DPS trooper says in the footage

At a public meeting where families that lost children in the school shooting said he should resign, McCraw said members of the Department of Public Safety made mistakes. But he said he’ll step down only “if DPS as an institution failed the families.”

The Texas state senator who represents Uvalde, alongside the parents of the children killed in the state’s deadliest school shooting, are calling on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s director to resign following reports a former trooper who responded to the massacre was hired as a school district police officer.

Two officers on site during the shooting were suspended.

The department’s officers made up nearly one-fourth of the 376 law enforcement members who responded to Texas’ deadliest school shooting. Announcement of the inquiry came one day after a report criticized police response to the massacre.