Bledsoe’s latest installment asks if Operation HELP was a front for creating a private brothel for police officers.

The RAM report asks if there was an internal investigative reason for Hinson’s assignment to Operation HELP of it was just a coincidence.

Perhaps we’ll find out.

But what jumped out at me when I read Bledsoe’s piece was the way the city bought into OPERATION Help. Is this not a perfect example of the politically-correct culture that permeates city government interfering with a city service, in this case getting prostitutes off the streets? Is this not an example of a city council member, in this case Dianne Bellamy-Small, getting a bit too intimate with the police department, even if she was a former cop?

Bledsoe writes:

While a police department can’t be a social services agency, said David Wray, the department felt obligated to do what it could to work with programs attempting to help people committing street crimes, even though similar efforts had failed in the past. When a city councilmember was involved in the program, the department could hardly ignore it.

Here’s the lesson: In the larger societal goal of getting prostitutes off the street, the police department’s main role is putting them behind bars. Deviating from that role, for whatever reason, is not a good idea.