What makes you think it would be some rich kids. Only affluent kids vandalize things? That really sounded like a statement that some lib would make. I don't mean to bust your chops, but people who have money aren't all bad people just like poor people are not always bad. By the looks of the neighborhood I would assume this was a working class area full of middle class people. If it were a Lexus on fire I would say you have a point.
Well, I know the area. It's not super-wealthy, but it's wealthy enough that it is highly likely that at least one of the perps' parents could call someone on City Council to get the chief to be quiet. Same thing in the prosecutor's office.
There just isn't a core group of liberals within 15 miles of the place. The nearest Dem voting area is the City of Hamilton, and I don't think they'd tolerate vandalism to a soldier's family very well there.
I suppose it's possible that some Moveon types got together and hunted down the address, but it's simply not the way to bet.