Since Angie Dales’ murder fifteen years ago at the
Appalachian School of Law, a small fortune has been spent on electronic
security equipment to improve school safety, giving the public a false sense of
security.
In most of the school shootings I have examined it is the
human factor that is the critical flaw, not the policies or the warning
systems. Yes, the later two needed improvement and more needs to be done. But
it was a breakdown in the decision making process on the part of one or more
human beings that sealed the fate of most of the victims. At the Appalachian School of Law, its
President brushed aside calls for campus security. At Virginia Tech, the
school’s President and Police Chief not only broke the school’s security
policies, but they violated the basic tenets of crime scene investigation and
procedures and did not warn. Everywhere I look at a school shootings it always
comes back to human flaw: incompetence coupled with bad judgment.
The most notable progress I can see since Angela Dales was
murdered in January of 2002, is the ability and willingness of people to
obfuscate, manipulate words, and cover-up. This shell games and lies has set
the stage for the most disappointing of all the revelations in the last fifteen
plus years, the corruption in our legal and judicial systems. I will discuss these
topics in future posts. (To be continued)
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