Oh I understand why a few pictures make sense. You make good points. I was talking about pictures that appear long after the investigation is over. We had some people on trial for a horrible crime near South Bend, IN, and it seemed like the local paper put up a picture of the perps every day for weeks or months throughout the trial. It was the dead victims who deserve to be seen and remembered -- not the killer.
In the old days, cops would walk the perps to the car and the press photographers with Speed Graphic cameras would be lined up yelling obscenities and racial slurs at them in attempts to get the perps to look mean or crazed.
For the most part, victims' families don't want pictures of their loved ones plastered over the papers day after day.