He did the minimum and then washed his hands of it. He didn’t care. He couldn’t care less that a guy, who he knew was suspected of molesting a child, was a free man and was working around children on a daily basis. Joe thought he did enough to cover his own ass and then he simply didn’t care what happened.
The problem with your argument is, there was nothing to do. V2 testified to that fact. Nothing happened that evening in 2001.