"Alright, please step out of the vehicle and remove your pants."

Depending on where you quarter
18th century British soldiers, it may
also violate the 3rd amendment. 

If you ever hear that from a cop after getting pulled over, don't be alarmed, it's perfectly legal. Just close your eyes and relax, it'll be over soon. The Supreme Court has just handed down a decision that allows law enforcement to perform a strip search on anyone arrested for anything. Anything at all. The logic here is that arrestees (yeah, it's a word) could be smuggling contraband into jails, which is true, but now officers no longer need reasonable suspicion to conduct a search. Critics say this ruling violates 4th amendment protections and is extremely pervy.

I mean, shouldn't there be a reason to search and a particular thing to search for? It's the difference between searching someone for heroin because they've been arrested for heroin possession and someone arrested for back taxes undergoing a cavity search for rare birds.

You know, because the suspect could have an ass full of exotic red-breasted cockatoos.

"Ma'am, please hold still, the guy from Hertz
is having trouble making out your breasts."

While likely well-intended, there is an exactly 0.03% chance that this broad, new power will not end in abuse. Remember those backscatter security scanners the TSA uses to check out your junk and give you cancer? Security agents at the airport in Dallas managed to turn those into $150,000 worth of blurry sexual assault. Sure, there will be times when police are conducting a legitimate search under the law, but if they don't find anything there's no way the searchee (ok, not a word) isn't going to be left with the reasonable suspicion that they just got groped.


And as if the 'ick' factor wasn't enough, doesn't this kind of smack of anti-protestor bullshit? I mean, how will this effect the turn-out at demonstrations if getting arrested now means police have an all-access pass to your tender insides?

 "What? He could have anything up there: joints, Phish tickets, WMD's, anything."

-Officer Grabby McPurvington