Posted on 05/26/2005 1:35:54 PM PDT by thag
DETROIT — Linda Rose (search) says she spent three hours crouched in the corner of a concrete cell at the Saginaw County Jail (search), shivering and sobbing, after deputies stripped her of her clothes and left her naked in front of a surveillance camera.
"They don't need to strip you of your clothes and your dignity," said Rose, who was arrested in 2001 for drunken driving.
The claim by the 36-year-old bartender is one of dozens of accounts of humiliating treatment that have emerged as part of a lawsuit against the county.
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Good thing these cops weren't in Iraq.
What? Next thing you know it'll be illegal to strip search an airline passenger! The slippery slope continues... only terrorists should be free from such treatment.
/sarcasm
Thank God they DIDN't try to put PANTIES on her head!
That would be WRONG!!!
I've been held naked before. Of course, there was a woman involved...
Yeah, I was thinking that being held naked is not a bad thing. Although my memory is a little fuzzy!
Dignified people don't go to Prison.
But they can be held naked...
You were held naked by a woman too? Cool!
Not that any FR members would need it ...
Smarta$$. Nah, that I am sure I would remember. Because it would give me reoccurring nightmares.
Although I hear that is the sort of stuff that men's dreams are made of ;p
Of course your average FR guy wouldn't need to go to prison to be held naked, either.
I suppose the "mandatory photographs" rule is invoked only if, say, Catherine Zeta-Jones is being held naked in prison.
Yeah. Let's start branding them when they get there, so we'll know them on the outside, too.
Right?
They take away the clothes to prevent suicide and to speed up the sobering process. Being cold makes you sober up more quickly.
Good thing they didn't work with me either - or I'd have fired their butts. There is absolutely no logical reason to keep a person locked up naked with a camera on them - outrageous.
Using intimidation techniques on terrorist is one thing - but treating a DUI the say way is just plain overkill.
Was that humor? -
But back to the topic at hand - These cops should simply be fired and the budgets of "these" specific police departments should PAY for any of the damages awarded (the tax-paying public shouldn't again have to fork out more money....we paid to begin with for these police departments. Now they will have to do with less if they lose a lawsuit!).
If that would start to become the norm you'd see police shape up in a hurry!
Everyone knows people forfeit their rights immediately upon being arrested. </sarcasm>
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