This woman stole five eggs to feed her kids. The cops didn't arrest her. They helped

This gave me my faith in humanity back

And now your comment made me think that you thought she stole another woman's eggs.

You must be new here.

We're lucky if it's not reposted within hours

Even seconds

Yes. Makes total sense.
If only they weren't stretched thin from layoffs... At least where I live, local govt is just as bad as federal when it comes to effing up a budget.
tl;dr Police have enough on their plate already. I can't think of a lower priority job for them to bother with than this.

egg

eggs

omelette

Omelette de fromase

People want to feel good about how the cop did nothing to change the root cause of her situation, but helped her briefly "fight the man" or some such nonsense.