{"id":59582,"date":"2024-12-13T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59582"},"modified":"2024-12-13T08:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:18:10","slug":"nytimes-mount-vernon-polices-strip-searches-were-unconstitutional-u-s-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59582","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Mount Vernon Police\u2019s Strip Searches Were Unconstitutional, U.S. Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/12\/nyregion\/mount-vernon-police-strip-searches.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">Mount Vernon Police\u2019s Strip Searches Were Unconstitutional, U.S. Says<\/a> by Alyce McFadden (\u201dA report by federal prosecutors found that a Westchester County police department violated the Fourth Amendment \u2018on an enormous scale.\u2019 [\u00b6] Two women, 65 and 75 years old, were taken to a police station in Mount Vernon, N.Y., after a traffic stop in 2020. Officers instructed both women to undress. Then they were told to bend over and cough. [\u00b6] Neither woman was arrested, and an investigation determined there had been no basis for the traffic stop in the first place. One of the women said she had been left \u2018very humiliated\u2019 and \u2018on the verge of fainting\u2019 from fear after the invasive search, commonly used in drug arrests. [\u00b6] The encounter is just one example of a long-running pattern of improper strip searches conducted by the police department in Mount Vernon, in Westchester County, according to a report released Thursday by the Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for the Southern District of New York.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Mount Vernon Police\u2019s Strip Searches Were Unconstitutional, U.S. Says by Alyce McFadden (\u201dA report by federal prosecutors found that a Westchester County police department violated the Fourth Amendment \u2018on an enormous scale.\u2019 [\u00b6] Two women, 65 and 75 years &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=59582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strip-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59583,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59582\/revisions\/59583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}