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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 10:37 PM Jul 2016

Police use catheters, force to collect urine samples

http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2016/07/01/police-use-catheters-force-collect-urine-samples/86577942/

Police in South Dakota are collecting urine samples from uncooperative suspects through the use of force and catheters, a procedure the state's top prosecutor says is legal but is criticized by others as unnecessarily invasive and a potential constitutional violation.

The practice isn't new, according to attorneys, but it's been brought to light in a recent case in Pierre. An attorney for a man charged with felony drug ingestion is asking a judge to throw out evidence from an involuntary urine sample, saying it violated his client's constitutional rights.

Dirk Landon Sparks was arrested March 14 after a report of a domestic disturbance. While in custody, officers with the Pierre Police Department observed Sparks fidgeting and his mood changing rapidly. A judge signed off on a search warrant for police to obtain blood or urine.

After Sparks refused to cooperate, police transported him to Avera St. Mary's Hospital in Pierre, where he was strapped to a bed while a catheter was forced into his penis so that officers could obtain a urine sample.


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pediatricmedic

(397 posts)
5. I would suspect the available lab equipment
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 08:22 AM
Jul 2016

Urine analyzer is cheaper, faster, and more available to small hospitals or clinics. Blood tox screen is often a send out test for all but the larger hospitals.

REP

(21,691 posts)
2. Female catheterization is even worse than a Foley, believe it or not
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 11:23 PM
Jul 2016

Topical anesthesia is given for a Foley but not for a woman under the belief the ureter is too short. Still hurts like fucking hell.

Th1onein

(8,514 posts)
3. I think everyone driving through South Dakota
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 11:41 PM
Jul 2016

Should go by Marty Jackley's (Atty Gen) office and leave a urine sample. That would stop all this catheter crap. Let's all make life easier for Mr. Jackley, shall we?

progree

(10,871 posts)
4. “They don’t anesthetize them ...There’s a lot of screaming and hollering.”
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 11:47 PM
Jul 2016
The practice isn't new, according to attorneys, but it's been brought to light in a recent case in Pierre. An attorney for a man charged with felony drug ingestion

Health care workers at the Wagner and Platte hospitals conduct the procedure on a regular basis, he said.

“They don’t anesthetize them,” Whalen said. “There’s a lot of screaming and hollering.”


The attorney general said law enforcement would prefer not to collect urine samples by force, but that ultimately it's up to suspects if they don't want to cooperate.

Look up paruresis (bashful bladder) you fuckhead.

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