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SunWuKung420 posted...

Your postulation that their reasoning to help a person off the street is for sexual or personal gratification reasons under force is appalling and that you would assume I was making a joke about that is equally insulting. A very dark mindset. There is good in the world.

A cop can be a decent human being, honestly trying to help others. Just like I'm a grocery and decent human being honestly trying to help others.

There are decent cops, but none of them would even consider offering to let a homeless woman whose arrest they played a role in a chance to live with them after that person got out of jail. Even if their intentions are pure, the implication is still there that the cop is expecting sex and that there may be consequences if she refuses. That power dynamic just is not healthy, which is why not a single police office would publicly support an officer doing that (though plenty would sweep it under the rug if it happened). It crosses professional boundaries in a way that simply is not appropriate.

Past that, though, I don't think a single person other than you read Mead's account of what happened and didn't immediately think "the cop wants to sleep with her." It's blatantly obvious that that was the case. Believing otherwise is quite hopelessly naive. In turn, the assumption is that when you're suggesting that Mead find a cop to go home with, you're suggesting that Mead should find a cop who's willing to trade housing and leniency for sexual favours. That's... not particularly cool.