CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There are a lot of bad guys running around Cleveland.

But by and large the cops are not among them.

As I watch all the attention being paid to Saturday's tragic police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who, police say, reached for a gun that turned out to be a replica that shoots pellets, I can't stop thinking about the real bad guys – such as the one who murdered five people Friday in one house on the city's East Side. The victims included a woman, her newborn child and a 17-year-old girl.

The bad guy even shot at a 9-year-old girl in the house, who was grazed and survived. This bad guy is running free.

A few hours later, on Saturday morning, two men were murdered in their car on the city's East Side. Little is known about their deaths other than perpetrator or perpetrators remain free.

Bad guys murdered seven people in one weekend.

Rice's death is no less important. But I can't throw it in the weekend tally, at least not yet. The cop who shot him is not a murderer.

His actions were captured by a surveillance camera, though the city refuses to release the footage. When it does, we will be able to scrutinize the cop's actions.

On Monday, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson led a news conference with police officials to promise that the city will do a thorough and transparent investigation into Rice's death, a message weakened by the city's refusal to identify the officer or release the footage. The effort is an obvious attempt to neutralize potential unrest that is triggered by cop shootings, if Ferguson, Missouri, is any indication.

The mayor opened his remarks by noting Rice's age – but also of the ages of the other young people killed this weekend. Jackson said he has grandchildren of the same ages. The point was heartfelt, and reminded the public that real bad guys murdered others this weekend.

The shooting of the boy – perhaps the youngest kid intentionally shot by police in Cleveland's history – has attracted worldwide media attention. It's also attracted the interest of Anonymous, the often-sinister group of hackers that target institutions and governments it deems incompetent. Anonymous has come after the City of Cleveland, claiming credit for shutting down the city's website on Monday. In a video message posted on YouTube, Anonymous taunted, "Police of the United States you will learn in due time once anonymous has shut down your sites that we will not stand for your ignorant untrained rookie cops."

Such threats only distract police from catching the man in a mask who murdered five people. Shouldn't Anonymous care about that?

Also, there is another death getting lost in the frenzy around Rice's death, that of the 37-year-old Tanisha Anderson. She is the Cleveland woman with a mental illness who died Nov. 13 after an altercation with police. Police are probing the officers' use of force. Police will not say whether the officers received the 40 hours of specialized crisis intervention training administered to hundreds of officers through the Cuyahoga County Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services.

No one mentioned Anderson at the Monday's press conference. Her family and community activists were holding a prayer vigil for her Saturday afternoon when news spread that across town that Cleveland police had shot Rice.

The deaths of Anderson and Rice come at a time when the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the police department's use of deadly force, which could result soon in some form of federal oversight.

The Cleveland police department needs better supervision, better training and policies. But that doesn't make the cops the bad guys.