Pedestrian killed on El Camino Real in San Mateo identified

Because they have not been arrested and likely will face no consequences for killing Veronica Vasquez. The law protects drivers.

If a teen steals a $7 deodorant from Walgreens, however, their face is plastered across every social media channel.

What joe said.

According to AAA, only 35% of drivers are "good drivers", the rest is speeding, drunk, high, distracted, too young, too old, cognitively impaired, etc.

In any death, police should take in the driver and process them. They should find out if the driver was in the 35% of 65% category. There should be blood drawn, fingerprints taken, identities confirmed, medical examinations, interviews, cars investigated. This would require an official detainment and therefore the release of names.

Police is happy to do all that for any transient or shoplifter they can grab, but they protect even those 65% of scofflaws with all means and might.

Their first reaction is "how can we blame this on the victim". This has been researched heavily, but CA Democrats still don't want to change it - hint: 'donations'.

Exactly. When a few speeders almost wiped out on I-92 in HMB during a rainy weekend, Berman, Becker, and Mueller were immediately on the phone and calling for 'Safety for Speeders'.

And very quickly, Caltrans came out with an engineering solution that allowed speeders to continue to raise around the curve there.

Of course those same three stayed very quiet about safety for non-speeding, vulnerable road users along Hwy 1.