“The Star policy is to use booking mugs only in the highest profile of crimes.”
A white shooter makes it a highest profile crime.
In the early 1980s some newspapers including the Ann Arbor News in Michigan had the policy to never print any picture of a person of color involved in a crime. Okay to publish white suspects’ pictures.
When a coworker told me she read the new policy my jaw dropped. I verified it was true.
The trend of so many pictures was giving people an impression the editors didn’t like. Remind me of the highway patrol true incident series where the producer was asked during a magazine interview if the races of suspects truly reflected the national trends. He said they sometimes went through twenty or more file folders to find an offender to do a story to balance it better.
Jeff Foxworthy:
You might be a redneck if your mother has twice——twice-—been the subject of a True Stories of the Highway Patrol episode.