UTPD says campus stabbing highlights need for more dispatchers

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On the average Monday, the University of Texas at Austin Police Department receives around 175 calls, but on Monday, May 1, when a man started going on a stabbing rampage, the university says its dispatchers fielded more than 500 calls within minutes. While those calls were coming in, there were only two dispatchers on the other end.
“We certainly recognize today that on that particular day our system was not robust enough to do what we needed it to do,” UTPD Ch