"For an educated middle-class woman to face public arrest and a strip search is almost unimaginable"

[Downtown Hound]

151. Well, as somebody who's been to jail twice for non-violent civil disobedience

and strip searched once, I can tell you that I'd rather have gone through that humiliation and know that I'm at least a little more safe when they stick me in a cell with all those "drug addicts" than preserving my dignity and end up getting stabbed.

Let's just say, for arguments sake, that she smuggled a weapon into jail and ending up hurting or killing somebody with it. What would you say then when it was discovered that the reason they didn't strip search her was because she was educated and middle class? You would probably accuse the police of pandering to the rich and wondering why they get special treatment.

The strip search is a degrading and humiliating thing, I know first hand. But it's done for everybody's safety. And ultimately, I care more about my safety than my dignity. I'm already in jail, so dignity has already kind of gone out the window the minute they placed me in cuffs.