9 shot dead by snipers, 20 wounded, 175 arrested, 155 indicted, 45 months of zero progress, and one trial by the DA... and the case of the Waco biker massacre has ended with no convictions of any kind. Nothing. Nada. Zip. 0. What did that cost the taxpayers?

https://www.wacotrib.com/news/da-dismisses-remaining-twin-peaks-biker-cases/article_124b9c6f-d3ab-581b-bb85-56ed33560735.html

So, after the elections... if you see what I mean. That shooting happened in May 2015, and those law enforcement leaders, the district attorney, and anyone else that joined in to appear tough on crime - while bringing a massacre to a lunch meeting of bikers, did so to get elected based on the most likely results of arresting 175 bikers with weapons.

Yet, only one trial happened, the jury reached no verdict, it was a mistrial...  and there you have it.

9 dead, about a hundred in jail waiting to go to trial, and then, the newly elected DA set the matter to rest declaring that "With the video evidence and the forensic evidence that's available, it's simply not possible to establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt [of] who fired the shots that killed people." other than the 4 dead which evidence proves was by Waco police dept snipers

As of May 2018, the county reportedly had spent $1.2 million on expenses related to the shootout.

More than 130 bikers have filed civil rights lawsuits against city and county authorities, the Tribune-Herald reports; many of them allege false arrest. Many of the 177 arrested spent weeks in jail on $1 million bonds.

Just how fast the next of kin will sue the city or county is yet to be seen, how that results in costs that will most likely by settled out of court by the county cutting checks, will probably not show up in the news.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/03/709432311/texas-prosecutor-drops-all-charges-in-2015-biker-shootout-that-killed-9