And then say what it actually was.

A supervisor solicited money from his own subordinates, at a mandatory briefing, on duty, in uniform, for the benefit of his own family’s situation.

Every word of that sentence is a problem and the problem is not generosity.

Because consider the officer in that room who had nothing spare.

Who had a car payment and a dentist and an eleven-year-old going on a trip.

In a room where his lieutenant has just put money in an envelope and said that anyone who wants to is welcome to.