UGA Alert

At UGA, there's a system called UGAAlert, the purpose of which is to alert students (creative name, no?) when an event has occurred on campus that is abnormal and could be dangerous. So my question to UGA police (the party responsible for this system's use) is this: Why is UGAAlert not used when there's actually something that could cause trouble on campus?

Yesterday, UGA students and faculty got an email from UGAAlert sometime in the morning (I don't remember the exact time - I deleted the email) explaining that the NIGHT BEFORE, two men had attempted an armed robbery on a student on North Campus. The whole point of this system is to alert students and staff to a potentially dangerous situation. Bearing that in mind, isn't an armed robbery a dangerous situation? If the system is not used within certain time from the event, say, within an hour, then why use it at all?

Given the one example, you might think I'm overreacting. But a similar event occurred last year, where a man ran through the area between Brumby Hall and the West Deck, and then proceeded through the Creswell common area (indoors!) brandishing a gun. To the UGAPD's credit, on this occasion, they did at least send the alert the same day, albeit between four and five hours later.

Another instance that also occurred last year was a bomb threat in the SLC. Both of the other events I've written about occurred in the evening, a time when there are far fewer students out and about. This particular event, however, disrupted my 9:05 psychology class. The SLC was closed for quite a few hours after that. You'd think (or at least I would) that this event in particular would warrant use of the alert. Instead, UGAPD ended up, because of the non-use of their alert system, with thousands of uninformed students milling about outside the SLC (within a hypothetical blast zone had a bomb actually gone off), and not knowing the danger that they were in simply by standing outside with classmates.

UGAAlert is not used AT ALL in actual emergency situations, but they have no problem sending five or ten messages in the event of  the possibility of severe weather. I'm not saying that using the system when there's a tornado watch is wrong, but in the recent weather situation in ACC, the alert system sent two messages each for the beginning and the end of the tornado watch and subsequent warning (eight messages total), which I think dilutes the purpose of the system substantially.

My entire point here is that if the University police send that many messages about a potential weather system, it would make sense to alert students when they're in danger from another source. In the events I described, the UGAAlert system was either not used at all (in the bomb threat), or not used until the threat had been isolated (robbery) and the responsible party apprehended (gun-brandishing). 

Thoughts?