what would you have the police do every time a complaint is made for a broken window or prank phone call?
The police are far less to "blame" than the teachers who saw and interacted with the boys daily but it is the boys themselves who are to blame.
Media circuses about such things do nothing to help either as they have far too often encouraged such copycat actions.

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