Why doesn't the school have cameras, should not all the schools have them? WHY doesn't LE investigate the school better. Is it a small town where LE and the school principal / staff are too close, and turn a blind eye.?
Because people feel safe. They aren't, but they don't dwell on that because in some places the odds are vanishingly small -- especially for an abduction of a child from inside a public school.
I lived in a town of 19,000 people for 15 years which had practically no crime, and no serious crime. We did not lock our doors, and when we moved out, we could not find the keys. My kids could leave their bikes near the curb and no one would take them. I mean, this was a SAFE town, even though it was in the midst of the Boston metro area, adjacent to a town with a much higher crime rate.
The library was renovated and an addition put on. They put cameras in it. A week after the cameras were installed, while I was at the library, a teenage boy followed a 6 year old girl into the bathroom and attempted to molest her. Her mother was looking at some of the art displayed in the wide hallway where the bathrooms were located, which was near the children's room on the lower level. She saw the guy out of the corner of her eye and intervened.
He ran. It was caught on camera and the police were called immediately, the molestation was not even started, and the boy was arrested. He lived in our safe town. The police, btw, were always publicizing that people should lock their doors and their cars, put their stuff away, and in general be careful. It was an uphill battle for LE because nothing bad ever happened, until it did (one child predator who lived in town, one murder of a gas station attendant by an out of town robber, in later years).
At the time I noticed the cameras, I wondered why the library would have them. We have no crime here! I even asked the librarian why! She said to keep track of what was going on with the kids who used the teen room after school.
I should have known better.