Internal Virginia Tech review

Virginia Tech probe finds no fault in massacre response:

An internal review by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, otherwise known as Virginia Tech, has assigned no blame to anyone for the school’s response on the day of the massacre.

“We at Virginia Tech have been forever changed by the crimes of this severely disturbed young man,” Steger said during a news conference Wednesday. VideoWatch Steger announce the results »

“He was determined to commit murder, planned the crime meticulously and managed to conceal his homicidal urges from all of law enforcement authorities, and the mental health experts who tried to help him and presumably from his own family,” Steger said.

The report released Wednesday says there was good cooperation and sound agreements between Virginia Tech and local police. It also says that the campus communications system was “dramatically stressed,” but performed adequately during the crisis. The review recommends replacing the entire system.

The report also goes on to state that the school needs to be more active in identifying “at risk” students like Cho. The thing is you’re never going to be able to find these students 100% of the time. Not only that but I think these kinds of recommendations sound great after a tragedy like this happens but in reality it’s just closing the barn door after the horses have gotten out.