There was a TV show I watched 30 years ago already, NYPD Blue. When a criminal clearly abused children, Detective Andy Sipowicz, "a drunken, angry, racist goon with a heart of gold", would smack the perp around a bit, while his partners looked the other way. Somebody committed suicide because of this hack and extortion. That is a tragedy. How the tens of thousands of persons who were attempted to be extorted felt, how can you even measure that? Don't you think that there is a bit of grey area in a case like this?