That being the case they should NOT have been the system for LEO communication. Shortwave LE radio with dedicated comm towers, encrypted. Were these employed? Needs thorough investigation, not take the word of freaking Verizon/ATT whose mapping must be a joke.
The crowd was 15,000 the town 13k-—28K and how many phones in use- they have the data. Subpoena them.
Agree on all points. When UHF TV went digital and was refarmed huge hunks of spectrum were opened up and dedicated exclusively to law enforcement and public safety. No excuse for them to be relying on commercial cellular comms, we spend enough money on crap but no one would object to the SS having the best most reliable comms on the planet. Disgusting!