police sued over jailhouse "peep show" featuring attractive young female inmates. (lawyer, suspect)

[wutitiz]

Lawsuit: Puyallup police videotaped female detainees undressing | Local News | The Seattle Times

Originally Posted by Seattle Times

Puyallup police selectively videotaped and watched young women change their clothes and use the toilet while in custody, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 11 women and one man....

Puyallup (named after an Indian tribe) is a town of about 37,000, roughly 30 miles south of Seattle. Police are being sued over allegations that they shot video of naked female inmates, mostly DUI suspects, who were required to change into an orange jumpsuit for mug shots. Some were allowed to change in private, but the lawyer for the 12 says that attractive young females were directed to cells with cameras. Normally I might give the cops the benefit of the doubt. The cameras can protect the inmates as well as the cops. But this does sound peculiar:

Originally Posted by Seattle Times

The woman alleges she was manhandled by the booking officer, who cupped her breasts and patted her down in a sexual manner. The officer asked her to change her clothes and directed her to a cell. The woman said she left her underwear on, but said the officer confronted her about it and sent her back inside to remove her undergarments.

What possible difference could it make whether she left her underwear on for the mug shot? Why was the officer so assiduously watching her change?

A few years ago a Puyallup cop landed in hot water when somebody took a video of him watching porn on a laptop in his patrol car.
Local News | On-duty Puyallup cop may have viewed porn | Seattle Times Newspaper

[pknopp]

I'm not sure why this is just a lawsuit. I understand a lawsuit would be a part of addressing this but if someone did this at Sears they get arrested.

Why do we hold law enforcement to different standards than other people in so many other cases?

If this turns out to be legit there needs to be arrests.

[rbohm]

Originally Posted by pknopp

I'm not sure why this is just a lawsuit. I understand a lawsuit would be a part of addressing this but if someone did this at Sears they get arrested.

Why do we hold law enforcement to different standards than other people in so many other cases?

If this turns out to be legit there needs to be arrests.

agreed. we need to hold our law enforcement officers to a higher standard in all aspects of the law. after all they have the training and supposedly the education to know what the law is.

[Gtownoe]

They should be in jail. But of course people don't hold them accountable. Cops are "special."

[VLWH]

Can't comment until I see all the videos for myself.