"You have to be utterly retarded and have no respect for others and lack any human decency to do something like that to another human being..." That applies to Van, but not so much Sandra, not at the start. The strip search was sold to Sandra as a kinder, gentler alternative. The caller used scary-sounding Dragnet terms: "We drag her downtown, we book her, we process her..." Sandra agrees that "That seems very extreme." So she thinks she's doing Becky a favor by "only" strip-searching her.
She's still ignorant, though, in the sense of not knowing basic rights, and so is Becky, because neither of them asks to see a *warrant*. And it doesn't occur to either of them that a real cop would not trust a civilian, a stranger, to conduct a search, and a judge wouldn't accept the results of such a search.
ETA: But Sandra is stupid, I think, and not managerial. There are several "waitaminit" moments. Like, "There's nothing in her clothes." "Well, nothing that you're trained to see." "Waitaminit, why did you have me do a search if I'm not trained for it?" Or "What surveillance team? Why was I not informed that a surveillance team was staking out the store?" And not asking how much money this was, or what the alleged victim looked like, what she ordered and when. And, almost worst of all, taking a crew member away from her position for so long. My former bosses would have balked at having a worker idle for four minutes, much less four hours. Sandra seems like a poor manager and a very poor decisionmaker and organizer.
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