Strip Searches

I was watching the news tonight and came across an interesting topic. The topic wasWhat should the limits be on the power of law enforcement to use strip searches on citizens that have been arrested regardless of the charges they are held on. The ruling was that there would not be a limit. The new law says that even if the police do not have reason to believe a person being arrested was carrying anything illegal they could still search you no matter how small the charge is. One judge was in favor of conservatives and wanted to clean up the streets by locking up criminals who were found with things on them that might not have been found otherwise without the new strip search law. A justice argued that the law invades people’s privacy. He thinks that unless an officer thinks for sure that the person arrested has something worth finding they shouldn’t be able to strip search. The case was primarily based off of a previous case that ended up being a flop. A state trooper pulled a man over and arrested him for not paying a fine and having a warrant even though the man claimed he had paid the ticket. The man was arrested anyway and strip searched twice. Later the records were proven incorrect and the man arrested was proven innocent. He claimed the strip searches that were conducted on him were unnecessary and embarrassing.
I understand the other arguments to this topic. Privacy is a big issue and I always want my privacy protected. However, more importantly I want the government to protect my butt first and foremost. If a gang member is arrested and let go because of a small charge when really he should have been taken down for carrying firearms and he ends up shooting me I think its safe to say I would have rather a strip search been conducted. I think it’s safe to say anyone would agree on that. If you don’t want to be strip searched try not breaking the law and then you won’t have to deal with the embarrassment. If you do get arrested then you shouldn’t have the right to turn a strip search down. If people would play by the rules none of this would matter anyway.