Abuse of State Power
NYC Settles Illegal Strip Search Case For $90K Where Male Detective Photographed Woman’s Below Waist Tattoo
November 11, 2011
NYC Settles Illegal Strip Search Case For $90K Where Male Detective Photographed Woman’s Below Waist Tattoo. After Bova filed a complaint, NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigators found 17 women who also claimed they had been strip-searched by Derosalia, who was assigned to the Narcotics Borough Brooklyn South. NYPD regulations prohibit male cops from performing strip searches of female prisoners.