Posted on 10/12/2011 9:55:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is debating whether a man who was arrested on a warrant for an unpaid traffic ticket should be among prisoners strip-searched when taken into custody at the county jail.
The warrant was the result of a computer error, and defendant Albert Florence had paperwork proving that he had paid his tickets and served probation for the pile-up of outstanding violations collected in his 20s.
But, Florence said, he went from having a good day with his family to being horrified and humiliated and detained for days.
Florence was removed from the car where his pregnant wife and son were, arrested, taken to two county prisons, where in each he had to remove his clothing, bathe, stand in front of an officer, spread arms, squat, cough and get manhandled.
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More like the idiot who didn’t remove the warrants from the system which may have been caused by the idiot in the court who didn’t send notification that fines had been paid.
DON'T 'process' people who are arrested for minor offenses in to jail at ALL.
Most honest cops don’t.
Cowards and traitors all.
Nothing gets the government more worked up than a citizen who has failed to pay his protection money. Notice I said a citizen. If this man had been an illegal alien who had merely ran over and killed a citizen, they would probably not even want to bother with him.
And guess what, in real jail bad, bad things can and often do happen.
So take complete and utter responsibility for your life and you won't whine of what the world has done to you.
If you don’t strip search everyone who enters a jail, I would think having an ‘associate’ jailed on a minor offense would be an easy way to smuggle in weapons or other items in to prison.
(My comment does not argue whether or not jailing this individual was warranted, only about whether or not strip searches are necessary for everybody that is being jailed).
This guy did take responsibility for his life - he paid his tickets.
I too am old enough to remember fifty years ago and back then the idea of going to jail for paying a traffic infraction ticket or several of them late would have been ludicrous. It would still be so if a significant percentage of cops, particularly in command positions hadn’t become JBTs
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