How are you going to effectively search 2600 acres and several dozens of major buildings containing 16,000 students
How? I am just going to say it once more.
By a large, immediate response from all possible resources available. You go building to building, searching for other bodies, victims, witnesses etc. The murderer could have had others held at gun point. They did not know and they should have acted, in mass.
Remember, two hours had passed, while the murderer was a 10 minute stroll away, sitting there in his room, loading magazine clips.
It appears that we will just have to disagree here.
> It appears that we will just have to disagree here.
It does. I think our ideas of the relative size of available police forces vis a vis the size of the campus are drastically different.
Do check out post #238. I think it nicely summarizes the problem with the “lock ‘em down and search ‘em” idea.
I still think the administration royally screwed up by not being more prompt with the warning to the campus community, though, so I guess I find myself in the middle between your position and woodbutcher’s.
How? I am just going to say it once more.
By a large, immediate response from all possible resources available. You go building to building, searching for other bodies, victims, witnesses etc. The murderer could have had others held at gun point. They did not know and they should have acted, in mass.
Remember, two hours had passed, while the murderer was a 10 minute stroll away, sitting there in his room, loading magazine clips.
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Have you ever been to VT?
About 12 years ago, I had occasion to go many times. When classes are changing, it is one very busy place. It is not a little cow college.
You must not have read my post. 18 or 20 cops would have to check 2,500 persons each. Identify them, determine whether they belong where they are found, etc.
So they go to this guy’s room. They knock on the door. He lives alone and knows they will think he is not there if he is quiet. Do they break the door down? Not likely.
Or suppose he does open the door. They ask his name. He shows them his ID. Gun s and ammo are hidden under the mattress. Do they search? No warrant?
Oh, yeah. They get some judge to write out and sign 26,000 warrants.
Anyway, no warrant. Guy with his ID opens the door. Says he has seen nor heard nothing. Was just about to go out for breakfast.
Cops go on to the next room.
Coon hunters shoot the dog that barks up the wrong tree too many times in a row.
It is time for you to quit barking up the wrong tree.