Ohio state police to protect schools after furor over Haitian immigrants in Springfield

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28. "It is the Ohio Police that should be initiating an investigation, not dumping the responsibility on the feds"

Telecomm is a federal function (FCC) as is anything that "crosses state lines", which is why the feds get involved. That includes anything like a "bomb threat" that is done over the phone (and such a circumstance may involve some notification to ATF if necessary).

The reality is, there is almost always a "federal-state team" set up for situations like this so they can coordinate and share resources. They all work for "some government".

When they set up these "partnerships", each party takes a role, so the local municipal government may do one thing (i.e., they might have something like an "Office of Community Affairs" that has liaisons with the community and can offer "counseling services" ), the local police may do another thing (say, if there is actual criminal mischief, like vandalism, that has occurred with this), the County and/or State police might do another thing (like requesting if other municipalities are dealing with the same thing, which might allow them to determine if this is an isolated incident by a local or is something more widespread), and the feds will do still other things (again, based on their jurisdiction).

Each has a mission and resources dedicated to that mission and it does actually help when resources are stretched thin.