LAPD Drops Transgender Pat-Downs, Eyes Separate Detention Space

CBS Los Angeles ^ | April 13, 2012

[Free ThinkerNY]

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Police on Friday signaled a department-wide shift in its treatment of transgender people both on the street and behind bars, including a reported plan to provide hormone treatments to transgender detainees.

Arrested transgender men and women will be housed in a separate section of the Los Angeles Police Department’s downtown Metropolitan Detention Center by the end of the month, according to a report published Friday.

LAPD jail division commander Capt. Dave Lindsay announced the move Thursday night at a meeting of transgender people in West Hollywood that was also attended by police Chief Charlie Beck and members of the city’s Police Commission, the Los Angeles Times reported.

[forgotten man]

Will the Sherriff be forced to hire transexual officers to serve as guards at “tranny town”?

[Fedupwithit]

Well, here's hoping some LA tranny is palming a shank that is missed when they they are supposed to be patting him/her/it down for contraband..

As usual, this idiotic policy won't be changed until some unfortunate occcurance happens, so it might as well happen sooner rather than later...

[Las Vegas Ron]

Beck said officers will instead have to rely on a transgendered person’s clothing, language or demeanor to determine how to address the individual.

Say, isn't that profiling?

[samtheman]

How gay.

[Beaten Valve]

I’ll bet the members of the LAPD are probably pretty happy about this.

Let some Liberal Judge roam around down-under and exmine the body parts of these queers.

[shadeaud]

So where do all these homosexuals get all the money for these operations and shots and other medical care. I checked my insurance policy and I’m not covered. I wonder if Medicare covers it.

[duffee]

Will they now have a men’s jail, a women’s jail, a TG m/f jail and a TG f/m jail? I can understand the officers not wanting to do a compleat patdown but do they now just take a persons word for which one of the 4,5 or 6 sexes someone may be? In this enlightened age why not just put all of them in one big dormitory?

[SpaceBar]

LAPD proposes forming an “it squad”.

[RedMonqey]

“.....some LA tranny is palming a shank that is missed when they they are supposed to be patting him/her/it down for contraband...”

It's almost a certainty that someone will get ‘shanked’ as inmates are always looking for a way to slip contraband into prisons..

Somebody will die before this policy is reversed...

[samtheman]

Good question.

[RedMonqey]

So where do all these homosexuals get all the money for these operations and shots and other medical care.

Prostitution, drug dealing...some states missuse medical to cover it...

[Responsibility2nd]

“.....some LA tranny is palming a shank that is missed when they they are supposed to be patting him/her/it down for contraband...”

It’s almost a certainty that someone will get ‘shanked’ as inmates are always looking for a way to slip contraband into prisons..

Somebody will die before this policy is reversed...

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I can see this conservation happening:

Guard 1: I wonder how he got that knife in this jail?

Guard 2: He probably slipped it inside his vagina.

[RedMonqey]

I can see this conservation happening:
Guard 1: I wonder how he got that knife in this jail?
Guard 2: He probably slipped it inside his vagina.

And guess who will get the blame for letting this happen?

Yep the guards themselves...

[Gay State Conservative]

Separate detention,eh? That could be fun.The ones who “changed” from female to male can prey upon the ones who did the opposite.Where's my popcorn?

[Fedupwithit]

Unfortunately, that is how most lessons are learned...

The Hard Way..

[heartwood]

Then how are they going to know if the person is transgender to put in the special transgender cells? If some 6’3 person with make-up, breasts, an Adam’s apple and man hands says “I’m a real girl,” and not “I’m a transgendered girl,” why don’t they have to put that person in the women’s cells?

[RedMonqey]

Unfortunately, that is how most lessons are learned...

The Hard Way..

Sad but true.

And the media will bury the tragedy deep in the back pages along with the "lost pet" ads...if they report it at all.