If you, as a kid, broke a window in your school, and the principal is, like, "Look, we've seen the surveillance video and we know who did it, but we ain't saying anything until next friday", you'll know for sure you have until friday to lawyer up or skip town or whatever kids do.

Actually, when schools say so it usually means they're bluffing, the cameras were broken, they have no clue who did it and they're counting on fear to make people confess.

Unless they of course they read the news, which is something that seems likely.

... which, of course, was the original point.

> ... which, of course, was the original point.

Right, which explains they they were reluctant to put it in the news i.e. "... but they won't say because they don't want to alert the guilty party before the investigation is over."

So it doesn't seem completely illogical why they'd do it as gp post suggests.