2/16-20/09 What could Hiram, or anyone else, have done, or do to stop the crime?

Hiram could have told someone other than his friends and grandpa. He should have told someone who had power to stop bad things from happening. The people that he told should have also said something but in my opinion they didn't or at least the people Hiram told thought that nothing was going to happen anyways so why waste their breathe. I think it would have still been good that someone in power could have knew so that they could have done something. Hiram probably thought that he was doing the right thing by telling his grandpa but his grandpa didn't do anything but have complaints about it so I would have done something differently like tell Emmit Til's family and the police. I think that the police would have done something about it even if it was just go check to see if Emmit was where he was suppose to be. Hiram could have told his friends to stop but they probably wouldn't listen. Hiram could have tried to warn Emmit about the men before they went to his uncle house. He also could have told Emmit cousins. They should have just told the police so they could be on the look out for trouble. As soon as Hiram heard what Emmit did he should have told someone right then and there. That was the right thing to do in that situation. He probably felt threatened by R.C.