{"id":61204,"date":"2025-06-05T15:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61204"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T20:37:43","slug":"the-appeal-strip-searches-have-a-racist-dehumanizing-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61204","title":{"rendered":"The Appeal: Strip Searches Have a Racist, Dehumanizing Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Appeal: <a href=\"https:\/\/theappeal.org\/strip-searches-racist-dehumanizing-prison\/\">Strip Searches Have a Racist, Dehumanizing Legacy<\/a> by Christopher Blackwell &amp; Sarah Sax (&#8220;Strip searches\u2014the procedure that triggered this deadly encounter\u2014represent a form of state-sanctioned violence with deep historical roots in American racial oppression. The practice of forcing people to disrobe and submit to bodily inspection directly echoes the dehumanizing treatment of enslaved people, who were regularly stripped naked and paraded in front of potential buyers. This historical connection is particularly salient given the disproportionate incarceration rates of Black Americans.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Appeal: Strip Searches Have a Racist, Dehumanizing Legacy by Christopher Blackwell &amp; Sarah Sax (&#8220;Strip searches\u2014the procedure that triggered this deadly encounter\u2014represent a form of state-sanctioned violence with deep historical roots in American racial oppression. The practice of forcing &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61204\">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-61204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strip-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61204","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=61204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61205,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61204\/revisions\/61205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}