‘To Catch a Predator’ Has a Lot to Answer For

Last week, five Assumption University students in Massachusetts were arraigned on charges of conspiracy and kidnapping. The group, all aged 18 or 19—a sixth student was charged separately in juvenile court—was alleged by police to have used a Tinder profile of an 18-year-old woman to lure a 22-year-old active-duty military service member to a basement lounge. (They pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and kidnapping.) The Guardian cites the police report, which describes how, after arriving…