Stop Looking for Someone to Blame
The articles I read about the Va. Tech shootings continue to sicken me. As I have said it is a not a situation where blaming someone else is going to help especially when everyone wants to blame the law enforcment and campus administration when by almost all accounts they acted in a manner consistent with the initial events that occured. Here are some quotes from people that know alot more about this situation.
Steger and other top administrators declined to be interviewed. The chiefs said the criticism benefits from information police did not have at the time.
Shutting down the campus -- keeping everyone in place -- was not a legitimate option, they said. By the time police had secured the dorm, the school day was well underway. Thousands of students had slung backpacks on their shoulders and were on their way to school. There was no way to contact them all. In a briefing to the school's Board of Visitors last week, police also said a lockdown could have trapped an angry Cho inside his dorm, making things worse.
"Trying to lock down a college campus with over 25,000 people in over a dozen buildings spread across acres and acres presents monumental challenges. It is like trying to lock down an entire city," said Kenneth S. Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, a consulting firm.(Washington Post)
The above seems logical, the steps require to lockdwon a city are immense and with a campus police department that has 55 members, not all working each shift it becomes virtually impossible.
For almost 2 1/2 hours after the initial alert at 7:15 a.m., a rapidly swelling team of law enforcement officers took steps that Flinchum and other top police officials say were appropriate to investigate a double murder. But in fact, they were witnessing only the first act of the most deadly mass shooting by an individual in U.S. history. While police pursued what they expected to turn out to be a crime of passion, Cho mailed his violent manifesto and headed for Norris Hall.(Washington Post)
This makes sense as well they handled the situation as most murders are handled, by looking for someone that knows the victims and woul have motive, a boyfriend would make sense. There is no way to know that what happened would lead to the killing of 30 more people, no police force on earth could have seen that and for people to use the "hindsight is 20/20" logic is wrong. With a dorm of over 900 students and only two dead there was no reason to believe this was anything more than a domestic triangle gone wrong, for people to make accusations otherwise is wrong.
Steger and other top administrators declined to be interviewed. The chiefs said the criticism benefits from information police did not have at the time.
Shutting down the campus -- keeping everyone in place -- was not a legitimate option, they said. By the time police had secured the dorm, the school day was well underway. Thousands of students had slung backpacks on their shoulders and were on their way to school. There was no way to contact them all. In a briefing to the school's Board of Visitors last week, police also said a lockdown could have trapped an angry Cho inside his dorm, making things worse.
"Trying to lock down a college campus with over 25,000 people in over a dozen buildings spread across acres and acres presents monumental challenges. It is like trying to lock down an entire city," said Kenneth S. Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, a consulting firm.(Washington Post)
The above seems logical, the steps require to lockdwon a city are immense and with a campus police department that has 55 members, not all working each shift it becomes virtually impossible.
For almost 2 1/2 hours after the initial alert at 7:15 a.m., a rapidly swelling team of law enforcement officers took steps that Flinchum and other top police officials say were appropriate to investigate a double murder. But in fact, they were witnessing only the first act of the most deadly mass shooting by an individual in U.S. history. While police pursued what they expected to turn out to be a crime of passion, Cho mailed his violent manifesto and headed for Norris Hall.(Washington Post)
This makes sense as well they handled the situation as most murders are handled, by looking for someone that knows the victims and woul have motive, a boyfriend would make sense. There is no way to know that what happened would lead to the killing of 30 more people, no police force on earth could have seen that and for people to use the "hindsight is 20/20" logic is wrong. With a dorm of over 900 students and only two dead there was no reason to believe this was anything more than a domestic triangle gone wrong, for people to make accusations otherwise is wrong.
posted by the meathaus at 11:14 AM
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