After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, most colleges,
including University of Maryland, have set up teams — usually made up of campus
police and administrators — to handle tips related to suspicious student
behavior, including anonymous Internet activity, said Brian Van Brunt,
president-elect of the National Behavioral
Intervention Team Association.
Teams like these have become one of the most effective ways
college campuses are dealing with, and preventing, serious violent crimes, Van
Brunt said.
Mary Ellen O’Toole, an
author and retired FBI profiler, uses another term, “leakage,” to
describe a phenomenon where many killers hint or even announce their plans far
in advance of carrying them out. Social media has emerged as a new place to do
it.
“When you start dealing with young people, college age, high
school,” O’Toole said, “they gotta tell you what they’re doing. It’s part of
their age.”
“We can learn a lot more about them through that.”
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