‘Violated’: Women Subjected to ‘Roadside Body Cavity Search’ During Routine Traffic Stop (And Dash Cam Caught It All)
Posted by XenokRoy 12 years ago to Legislation
Shouldn't this kind of search require a warrant? Let alone the other rather unpleasant aspects, it seems that such a search could not be done without a warrant in any free society. Anyone out here have some legal expertise?
This is just outrageous!
and did anyone else pick up on the fact this took place in freedom loving Texas?
Such searches are definitely necessary as you cannot treat criminals as though they have all the rights of those who are not breaking the law.
The search and seizure laws ride a fine line between whether a 3rd party, the officer, who is intervening with the supposed perpetrator and those to be harmed by their behavior. The entire purpose of these laws is to get to those actually committing a crime and those who are not...a lot of gray area in how to execute this, but needless to say, we are all glad there are officers out there doing this job as most of us would not be capable of stomaching such a duty.
I won't get into the philosophy of self-detrimental behavior and whether we as a society need to intervene; however, my position is, and I think this is consistent with the Bible, that those that want to harm themselves do not necessarily place a responsibility on us to prevent them...people will absolutely find a way to do that which they want to. In the book of Proverbs in the Bible, a general truth stated is that if you rebuke a fool, he will hate you...if you rebuke a wise man, he will listen and be restored.
Let's talk about how much different we as a society have come in violations of human dignity just because law enforcement claims "safety" or "precaution" or "expedience" all of these reasons taking precedence over your Constitutional rights. Often the slippery slope begins with, well, if you weren't doing anything wrong in the first place, you'd have nothing to worry about. There have been hundreds of court battles on this very point and the answer was, oh-you weren't doing anything wrong, that should not have happened. But it did. Also, no one ever follows up with reasoned studies on deterrents such as body cavity searches and increased safety, so we never really know if such extreme measures on EVERYONE jailed actually even get out of the noise on positive security results. After all, most people driving down the road who are stopped have little to no time to shove a weapon into a body cavity. Now lets talk illegal drugs. To what degree of outside of enough is our society willing to go to to retrieve evidence if a drug crime is committed. Are we all so much safer because body cavity searches are performed. DId anyone even do routine body cavity searches say in the 60s? Are we Safer now than in the 60s? These measures, while I won't say were implemented to actually cow the population, end up having the same result. The procedure is draconian and dehumanizing and for the most part, unnecessary.
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Disgusted,
O.A.