When the University of Virginia went into lockdown for the second time in a week in February, Ckalib Nelson, a Charlottesville-based data scientist, was caught off guard.
First, there was an hours-long lockdown while the state, county, city, and UVA police departments chased a man after he fled from a traffic stop on Feb. 25. Then, two days later, UVA’s emergency alert system told everyone on campus to “run hide fight” as the police pursued a suspect in a stabbing. This is a more severe alert directing students and staff on how to respond to an active assailant or shooter.
“I thought that was wild, because, statistically speaking, that just doesn’t sound like it happens often,” said Nelson after reading about the back-to-back events in Charlottesville Tomorrow…