# Get arrested? - Bend over.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-arrested-bend-over/617602>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 2, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-arrested-bend-over/617602 "2012-04-02T17:07:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-arrested-bend-over/617602/61 "2012-04-04T04:46:58Z")

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Not to mention, even with a strip search, contraband gets in. Someone in my cell was smoking marijuana, the same drug that I was arrested for. :rolleyes:

I had about 45min-hour in a holding cell before being processed. If I’d been dumb enough to bring anything with me that already wasn’t found, there would have been plenty of time to work it into the “fanny pack”.

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**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-arrested-bend-over/617602/62 "2012-04-04T22:35:27Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Yes. Pretty much the same procedure only we do it to him rather than him doing it himself. Which meant it was a pretty rare event. A prisoner might refuse because he thinks we won’t push the issue. But when he realizes we’re serious, he usually decides he’d rather pull his butt cheeks apart himself than have a guard do it to him.

Wow that really sounds like a degrading, humiliating experience, over something potentially as minor as [walking a dog without a leash](http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/04/opinion/colb-strip-search/index.html). What garantees do we have the searchers are any better than TSA groping lowlifes?  
How much psychological damage do you think something like that could do to a rape victim?

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