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their adopted names, choose whether male or female officers frisk them and
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*New transgender rules at Boston Police Department*
Boston
Herald<http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/06/new_transgender_rules_at_bpd>:
Transgender criminal suspects can demand that cops call them by their
adopted names, *choose whether male or female officers frisk them* and* get
a personal, private ride to court* under new policies unveiled by Boston
police Commissioner Edward F. Davis yesterday.
“Our main goal is that *everyone should be treated equally*, and everyone
should be treated with respect and dignity, whether you’re at the front
desk or on the other side of the front desk,” said officer Javier Pagan,
the Boston Police Department’s liaison to lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender communities. “Everyone should be treated with the same respect.”
The new regs come five months after the Boston Police Department coughed up
$20,000 to settle a federal suit brought by Brenda Wernikoff, *a
transgender woman arrested in May 2010 for using the women’s bathroom* at a
homeless shelter. The suit said cops forced Wernikoff to strip and “ordered
Ms. Wernikoff to jump up and down, causing her breasts to jiggle.”
“It’s just easier that way,” Pagan said. “*If a person lives their life as
a female and they feel more comfortable having a female search them* — and
we’re not talking about strip searches, we’re just talking about pat-downs
— if they feel more comfortable having a female do it, then that way you’re
sort of just giving them their dignity.”
The new rules also require that all suspect searches “*will be conducted by
two officers of the gender requested by the transgender prisoner*, whenever
possible.” If that’s not possible, the policies say, “the search shall
nonetheless be conducted by two available officers.”
*Transgender prisoners will be transported and jailed alone “whenever
possible*,” according to the policies. “Officers shall ensure that
additional units are called in order to assist with transporting
transgender individuals.”
Pagan said the rules have been in development for several years and are
modeled after similar policies in Chicago and Washington, D.C.“
When the powers that be have to start shelling out money, things maintain
value. In other words, now, the way you treat or mistreat somebody has a
value to it,” Wernikoff told the Herald last night. “Financial exposure —
that’s the only thing that moves them. *Common sense, logic and reason
don’t seem to work.* Money seems to be the correct vehicle.”
So if they are going to treat all suspects "equally", does that mean anyone
can choose what officer gets to frisk them? Does that mean they all can
request a private ride to court? I seriously doubt that. But hey, more
"equality"!
DCG
*DCG <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/dcgere/>* | June 15,
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