Super interesting how much people were willing to overlook in the day-to-day to keep telling themselves that everything was okay. I would love to read the daily diaries of the official diarist of the People's Temple.

Also interesting to think about that line of crime prevention. The Concerned Relatives official organization sounded numerous alarm bells to federal authorities and people of influence, but as authorities never found anything illegal they did nothing. I agree that law enforcement's hands were pretty tied in this situation, but how often do we hear the alarm bells raised in our subconscious or even vocalized by someone in our community and think that it's nothing to take concern over? I can think of a specific situation of child abuse at a former job where after the fact multiple staff said, "You know, I thought something was wrong but I didn't want to falsely accuse the person." I don't know enough about legal ethics to be able to say more about this, but I would encourage people to trust their guts more and protect their loved ones even in the face of "You're overreacting."