The World is too big. Nobody can keep track of it all. As omnipresent media has grown, this problem has gotten even worse.
The solution is to have maybe 200,000 People Who Matter (PWMs), and everybody else. The PWMs get on TV and the newspaper, they get elected to high office or become celebrities, they become common household names. Victor and Betsy Gotbaum are most definitely PWMs.
Everybody else just muddles along, loved only by their families. They merit no attention unless they are interfacing with a PWM at a particular point in time.
So when a PWM gets treated like a regular person, it is big news. When one dies in a drunk tank, it is really big news.
For their own protection most drunk tanks have video surveillance.
Why not in this case?
Best regards,