This is from the Tx AG website:
The Office of the Attorney General is committed to supporting local law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices to fight crime in the state of Texas
This office can assist with criminal investigations and prosecution at the request of local officials. The OAG also coordinates and cooperates with interjurisdictional efforts involving local, state and federal criminal law enforcement agencies.
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The Office of the Attorney General participates in a broad range of activities to provide leadership and support to Texas prosecutors and law enforcement. Through investigation, prosecution, postconviction litigation, training and special initiatives, the OAG works to make the State of Texas a safer place in which to live.
A cooperative effort between OAG criminal investigators and local law enforcement agencies has yielded hundreds of arrests of child sex predators and dozens of convictions of child pornographers.
Attorney General investigators also work with local law enforcement and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to identify, locate, and arrest child sex offenders who violate the terms of their paroles and sex offenders who fail to register with law enforcement as required by law.
From me: I’m not saying Abbott is bad. In fact, he’s one of the best AGs we’ve ever had. I’m saying he doesn’t have the authority he seems to be implying that he has. In Texas, it’s the local sheriff and chief of police who has the authority to arrest and the local prosecuting attorney who has the power to prosecute. The TX AG has limited powers. It’s the way Texas is. The governor has very little authority, either. Sam Houston wanted a very weak government.
Abbott wasn’t kidding about Harry Reid. Reid brought up the FLDS and put it in the national spotlight ‘causing local law enforcement to start doing something. They requested the TX AG’s help, which they always do on cases where they have to be very careful on the points of the law.
Personally, I believe Harry Reid was simply trying to make sure we all know it’s not his church. Just following his marching orders from SLC.
problem is you’ve got to find someone who wants to leave and who will testify. We have to remember these women have a bunch of kids and I’m sure they’re wondering how they’re going to feed them. Moving out is the least of their concerns. And I don’t know what the answer is but I am extremely pleased that someone is prosecuting them. But Abbott can’t go in there and arrest people.
That's been the excuse of why UT and AZ have not been prosecuting these criminal pedophiles.
The tape that sealed the deal for Warren Steed Jeffs - that of the rape of the 12 year old was found in the Cadillac Escalade in Nevada. Nevada, Utah and Arizona all had access to that information.
What they did not have was Gen. Abbot's resolve.
Did Schliecher County Sheriff David Doran send the Texas Rangers to Canada when they found the Canadian girl on the YFZ with no parents to match the DNA?
Those women aren't worried about feeding their children. Right about now they worried about dodging Abbot's subpoena's and if I don't miss my guess heading for Pringle, Mancos or Mexico.
For not having any prosecutorial powers he sure broke up their pinochle game.