CTA Alerts-style system could ahve saved lives at Virginia Tech

 The official line on the Virginia Tech report is that the University should have alerted people earlier. But the fact is that some plain-old electronic rumor-mongering and unofficial rush-to-post twittering would have done the trick, too.

Report: V. Tech could have saved lives :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation
Had university officials not waited more than two hours to tell the campus about the initial shootings, lives could have been saved when Seung-Hui Cho later began his massacre inside a classroom building, according to the report, released Wednesday night.

”Warning the students, faculty and staff might have made a difference,” the panel wrote. ”So the earlier and clearer the warning, the more chance an individual had of surviving.”


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