I agree. But using volunteers probably gets them around the ethical and legal requirements us licensed professionals have to report harm to self or others and limits anyone official getting too close. I know a safe house here locally who uses low level certified workers (former addicts, the mentally ill, those with lived experience) as staff and boasts how they do not involve law enforcement as that's often seen as a barrier for troons, addicts, and crazy people to seeking help, when the sole purpose of the safe house is to provide a stable meeting spot for those people while the agency actively works with law enforcement in the background to arrest or commit them. Again, Dem run city. The government funds these places to the tune of millions of dollars to run these entrapment safe houses to increase arrests and commitments to pad the numbers for police and politicians to boast about how great of a job they're doing controlling the riffraff. The workers are paid very little, very little is spent on resources for the clients, but those at the top clean up.