Is there a pattern here?

In the last few weeks the area News people have continued telling us about all the robberies, stabbings, rapes, hold-ups, assaults, killings, drug busts, abuse of children and often explain what, how and why the bad person got away.

They also often go on telling us how the perpetrator(s) meets the same description of another person(s) being sought for earlier crimes . . . however they now continuously fail to give us those descriptions.

I think perhaps they now assume . . . we already know?