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The Texas Ranger Division, also known as the Texas Rangers and nicknamed the Diablos Tejanos (Spanish for 'Texan Devils'), [4] is an investigative law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in the U.S. state of Texas, based in the capital city Austin.
The Texas Rangers conduct major violent crime, public corruption, cold case and officer involved shooting investigations and oversee the department’s border security and tactical and crisis negotiation programs.
The Texas Rangers are a major division within the Texas Department of Public Safety, with lead investigative responsibility for major violent crimes, unsolved violent crimes, serial criminals, public corruption, public integrity offenses, and officer-involved shootings.
For all practical purposes, there were no Texas Rangers for nearly a decade after the war. During this time, law enforcement was handled by a highly political and roundly hated organization known as the State Police. Texas, like other Southern states, was in the throes of reconstruction and any authority, civil or military, was distrusted.
Texas Rangers Through the Years August 21, 2020. In this undated photo, Texas Rangers on horseback and on board the DPS helicopter demonstrate traditional and modern law enforcement transportation. In this undated photo, Texas Rangers investigate a burglary that involved safe-cracking. Follow DPS.
The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a statewide investigative law enforcement organization consisting of veteran commissioned officers. Formerly independent, the Rangers became a founding component of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) in 1935.
During Reconstruction, the Rangers were replaced by a Union-controlled version of the Rangers aka the Texas State Police. Charged with enforcing unpopular new laws that came with reintegration, that organization fell into disrepute. [ 13 ]
