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Sure, let's see what happens when you get strip searched for mundane things like being too noisy.

Isn't the issue, then, that you shouldn't be put in jail for such offences, rather than making arguments concerning strip searching?

How about - both.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

This applies especially and probably mostly to the police and government.

Police indirectly get more money for more arrests. Therefore, arrest more people.

You should be glad when you get a driving ticket. It's a proxy for an arrest or two that could have happened instead.