Blaming women for wanting to seek out safety in this way is strange.
However there is something to be said about the crowd you find yourself with. If you assume this app to be necessary, I would assume your social standards are not high enough.
And you perhaps watch too much Netflix. Most friend groups do not include a psychopath. And if you date solely based on the recommendations of those friend groups, you can avoid 99% of bad things.
I have, however, scoured decades of court documents and police records (the joys of freelance IT work) and stand by the observation that the absolute worst people can be found everywhere .. including unseen within the most milquetoast seeming circles until that day when acquaintances voxpop "they seemed like such a nice person" statements.
That's drawn from real life, not Netflix.
Sex pests can easily be professors, judges, police, priests, child physiologists, good Christians, devout Muslims, upstanding Jews, you name it.
> I have, however, scoured decades of court documents and police records
If you don't see how this is distorting your view on reality worse than consuming lots of murder porn documentaries on Netflix, then I don't know what to tell you.
> "they seemed like such a nice person" statements.
You're misusing that phrase. It's typically uttered by neighbors or coworkers that didn't actually know somebody. Hence the "seemed like".
If you're actually close friends with somebody, there is very little chance to hide something like psychopathy.
However there is something to be said about the crowd you find yourself with. If you assume this app to be necessary, I would assume your social standards are not high enough.