When you’re the top cop in Texas, you get to leave on your terms.
Not amid the cries of anguished families from Uvalde, but over the applause of those gathered in Austin for the graduation of the newest crop of Texas state troopers.
Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw’s retirement announcement Friday , wrapped in accolades from Gov. Greg Abbott, isn’t the resignation that Uvalde parents demanded two years ago as the department’s failures and false narratives around the deadliest school shooting in Texas history came painfully into focus. But some took comfort in McCraw’s departure nonetheless…