WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has tapped a team of experts including a senior FBI official and several retired police chiefs to help run a wide-ranging investigation of the law-enforcement response to the elementary-school massacre in Uvalde, Texas.
The review will examine what policies, training, communications, deployment tactics and other practices law-enforcement agencies followed while responding to the May 24 mass shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Witnesses, survivors and some members of law enforcement have since pointed to a number of catastrophic failures by law enforcement that Justice Department officials will further probe.