Getting rid of those bad apples would also help recruitment. A major barrier to hiring more officers is SPD's racist, sexist culture of impunity. The officers we want on our force are turned off by those attitudes. Get rid of that mentality and watch hiring numbers rise.

David Brooks wrote an entire column about offensive it was to say "Epstien Class" without volunteering that he was at a conference with Epstien.

And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.