Supreme Court approves strip searches for any offense

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

[QUOTE="theone86"]

Which is why smuggling weapons into such facilities is so rampant, right?

I'm not saying there aren't instances where strip-searches are warranted, I'm saying that making a blanket policy that they are allowed for any arrest and not subject at all to Constitutional rights is ridiculous.

theone86

I could be picked up for simple posession, be pated down and still be hiding a discreet blade taped to my skin under my underware (yes, I've known people who've done such things).

For one, patdowns can include around the thighs and crotch. Two, because some person MIGHT do that now EVERYONE who is picked up for something as minor as possession has their right to object forfeited? No, doesn't fly, this is giving far too much authority to local law enforcement and stripping the rights of citizens to object in any form to questionable procedures.

Patdows will not necessarily catch everything. Let's say a person is placed in jail and manages to smuggle in a knife that was missed on a simple patdown. While in jail he uses this knife the slit the throat of another inmate. What would your reaction be then? You'd probably chastize the department for not being careful enough.

Gotta love this country.

Police state much?

Police state much?

Big_Pecks

Not really. No more so than being stripped of freedom (for however long), confined to a cell and being made to wear ugly orange jumpsuits in the first place.

So, can I get strip searched for jaywalking?BranKetra

If jaywalking is a jailable offense in your jurisdiction then maybe. If not then no.

So, can I get strip searched for jaywalking?BranKetra

Probably not. In the NY penal code jaywalking is only a citable offense. I believe. I haven't brushed up on the NYC codes.

If jaywalking is a jailable offense in your jurisdiction then maybe. If not then no.

worlock77

Probably not. In the NY penal code jaywalking is only a citable offense. I believe. I haven't brushed up on the NYC codes.

airshocker

[QUOTE="DaBrainz"]You didn't answer the question. If someone gets a bench warrent for not paying parking tickets they get arrested, there is no reason to force them to show off their privates. If this happened to me I would be infuriated.airshocker

You'd learn your fvcking lesson, though. I guarantee that much.

Seriously, though, that's not what the supreme court is saying. They're giving departments the option. That doesn't mean a strip search will be used for every single instance.

If you don't commit a crime, then there's no problem.

This isn't really anything new. I have a friend who works in a county jail and he said it's standard procedure to strip search inmates (and you wouldn't believe the things they find in the places they find them). And people generally don't go to jail for minor traffic offenses. They go to jail for not paying/failing to appear in court for said traffic offenses which usually results in a warrant/summons to appear in court.