[4Runner]

The names of those charged were not immediately released.

Why the hell not?

[golux]

Why the hell not?

It is important to our elite elected and appointed leaders, and to the elite members of the press, when the names and identities of the perpetrators of particularly heinous crimes might give the public certain ideas about the undesirability of certain types of people in their neighborhoods, that those names and identities be hidden from the public until the story "dies down," even if this places the general public at great risk.