Reply #43: I'm not understanding what all this flaming is about.

[Chovexani]

I guess I'm naive, but I don't get how people are going off on all these OMGBATHHOUSESARETHEDEVIL tangents when IMO the essential issue wrt to this story, is police misconduct. I know that if I were at this event, or one of my loved ones was, and male cops busted in questioning nude women (whether or not they gave the nude women time to put clothes on seems to be in dispute, but in my experience I would err on the side of believing the women), I'd be incredibly upset to say the least. At minimum, the police demonstrated a level of insensitivity; they couldn't find one female officer to go in there? From the police POV it also seems pretty damn stupid to have male officers in that sort of situation. I know Canada is not nearly as litigious a society as we have down here, and I'm viewing this through the lenses of a New Yorker whose precinct was the one where Abner Louima was brutalized in, but that just seems like a recipe for trouble.

The tone of this thread is troubling to me; the fact that a judge found that these women's constitutional rights were violated has basically been ignored, ostensibly because they were Dirty Women in a Dirty Bathhouse. I really, really hope I'm wrong, but that's what it looks like to me.