Consensually, not really. That's why we have indignation. This particular bust was handled well, what with the same-sex administration and privacy considerations. It's just -- why the hell did they have to search kids? Wheeler-dealer adults that should know better -- and attractive girls on the wrong side of Peter-Principled law enforcement lechers -- are the usual targets for strip search abuse. Permissions can run high in the states, and it's one of those American pet peeves, like excessive drug sentencing or corporations seizing private property, that one must hope get phased out as part of some judicial priority against hysteria.

But legalities are not the point. It's an attitude difference. First, Americans do not have the same attitude towards police as Germans do. There's not as much respect, and character appraisals in general are negative (thus my remark about lecherous police above). Second, Americans have a problem with nudity and sexuality that Europeans, in general, do not. The thought of adult hands touching our children's naked bodies -- sure, doctors and nannies do it, but that's different -- sends us into an anal nightmare. Third, and this is our constitutional refrain: you're going to need a warrant for that.