Yes, a “career ending vs life threatening” question for the male officer. To do a thorough search, it could be deemed sexual assault under any other circumstances.
But wouldn’t it be SOP for a female deputy to be called to do the frisk? Was that the unreported situation here? Not that there would be any DEI hires on the force. /s
That wouldn't be out of the question, and should already be part of the rules and regulations. I'm thinking, if this was a male officer, he was too lazy to make the call, and went ahead and put her in the car. His laziness could have caused him his life. And some male officers, don't want to be seen as having to rely on a female to help him collar a perp. I'm speaking as a female who worked in uniform for 25 years in NY State's prison system. I only worked in male prisons.
My first facility was Auburn prison, a max facility. One time, not long after I had started the job, I was on my day off, a Saturday, and they called me in to frisk a female visitor they had a tip was going to bring drugs in that day, and I needed to do a strip search on her. They called me because there were no other females working that day. She had nothing on her.
Female deputies aren’t always available. I do like the metal detector idea though. It won’t stop some items but it’ll catch the “stabby shooty” ones.
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