I have a hard time understanding why it wasn't a criminal act too, and I live here!
The local leftist rag is a worthless waste of paper, and recently went to paid subscription for Internet access, and we are too far away from Tampa and Orlando to attract the attention of any serious crime/corruption reporters.
If any even still exist.
We have lots of traffic cameras, numerous drug/sex crime stings and busts, and lots of cop killings, way above average for a midsized central Florida city.
Lakeland? Hell the entire I4 corridor is a mess. Seffner is a cesspool, Plant City is acceptably southern, Lakeland is getting nastier, Haines City up to Celebration is like Juarez, and then you have Orlando. Don’t get me started on Orlando.
I try not to leave Pinellas county, and when I do, I exit by the north or the south. Hillsborough’s getting cesspool-y too.