[Trent Harvey, Jr.]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us...e.html?_r=3&hp

people may be strip-searched after arrests for violating a leash law, driving without a license and failing to pay child support. Citing examples from briefs submitted to the Supreme Court, Justice Breyer wrote that people have been subjected to “the humiliation of a visual strip-search” after being arrested for driving with a noisy muffler, failing to use a turn signal and riding a bicycle without an audible bell.

A nun was strip-searched, he wrote, after an arrest for trespassing during an antiwar demonstration. So were victims of sexual assaults and women who were menstruating.

Justice Kennedy responded that “people detained for minor offenses can turn out to be the most devious and dangerous criminals.”

He's got a point. Also, people detained at random can too. I like the new code-word for unlimited police-state power:

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, joined by the court’s conservative wing, wrote that courts are in no position to second-guess the judgments of correctional officials