Baltimore police conducted more than 60 illegal strip searches, some in public DoJ

The findings of a Department of Justice probe into the Baltimore police department has reveled “many instances in which BPD officers strip-searched individuals without justification – often in public areas – subjecting them to humiliation and violating the constitution.”

Released last week, the report details one incident involving officers in BPD’s Eastern District who publicly stripped and searched the anal cavity of a woman pulled over for a broken headlight after she was told to exit her vehicle.
When officers told her to stand her on the side of the road and remove her clothes, she asked “I really gotta take all my clothes off?” The officer in charge told her yes and then ordered a female officer to strip-search her.
According to the DOJ report, the female officer then put on latex gloves and searched the woman’s bra area before pulling down her underwear and searching her anus “in full view of the street, although the supervising male officer claimed he ‘turned away’ and did not watch the woman disrobe.”
The officers found no contraband and no evidence of wrongdoing. The woman was released without any charges, receiving only a repair order to get her broken headlight fixed. She then filed a complaint with the department
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