You know, there is something I find distasteful about this whole thing, but I can't exactly articulate what.

Having said that, the only people I know of who were hurt by this were rapists and drug dealers. And I have trouble working up much sense of outrage about what happened to them.

I don't know what you mean by "FORCE." The only participants I know of got caught doing x, and were offered a potentially lighter punishment if they informed on others doing the same or worse. They didn't have to accept the deal, and I'm sure many haven't. Others did. I've seen this at other bases. And, uh, it appears to a regular approach used by law enforcement world wide.

I think a more accurate--if less sensationalistic--headline would have "Academy has a police force, which apparently does it's job."

Still, like you, I find it a little uncomfortable. I knew similar things happened when I was a cadet, it just didn't end up on the front page of the [then] GT.