Why would the police be doing the Fort Hood investigation instead of the military?

Both are doing an investigation. The military will have their turn first at taking him to trial. Why does that confuse you? The man shot a civilian cop so they have jurisdiction too. They are working together.

I think because at least one military police officer was shot or killed. It is not unusual in civilian cases, if a police officer is killed in one jurisdiction, a neighboring town or precinct might take over the investigation, especially if it is a small department. There is more objectivity if the department or precinct is not investigating the killing of one of their own. And while there were primarily service personnel killed, there was at least one civilian killed, I think.

I'm sure this is a joint operation, everybody available is in this thing together. But I'm sure the military is running the show, even if civilians are involved.

Military is going to allow police investigation?

"Despite the fact that Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan was a psychiatrist, the media has failed to even raise the question of whether he was taking psychotropic drugs before he gunned down over a dozen of his colleagues during yesterday’s tragic rampage, a hefty indictment of how the establishment rushes to blame politics, religion, gun rights, or any other factor for mass shootings in order to hide the direct link between such massacres and the use of anti-depressant drugs.

It has been confirmed that Hasan was an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood. Psychiatrists have a history of “self-medication” because of the easy access they have to psychotropic drugs."

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Due to the very low crime rate for military personnel there tends not to be a lot of expierence among military investigators for major crimes. As a result the military will request assistance from law enforcement agencies that have a lot of expirence in these sorts of investigations.

Most likely, because they have more experience in these type of things. I would not be surprised if big-city Texas police departments are being called in to help. But to me, it appears to be under military auspices.

The police have jurisdiction over anything in their territory. Military bases are still part of their territory. The MP's will work with the police though.

If it was out of the USA, the MP's always have jurisdiction.

Because the military/government were SO THOROUGH on allowing Maj. Hasan to even BE in the military, I guess the police wants to do a BETTER investigation.

If you are confused now wait till Obama pardons him before he leaves office