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A police strip-search left Mysa feeling dehumanised. New data reveals the extent of the practice in NSW

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Mysa Le was strip-searched at Sydney ’s Midnight Mafia music festival in May 2018 .

She said two female police officers took her into a booth and told her to take off her clothes without explaining what was happening.

Le said she was ignored by police when she told them she didn’t have any illicit substances on her.

The statistics were released on Wednesday by the Redfern Legal Centre ( RLC ) on its “police accountability dashboard” which it said was the first of its kind in Australia .

Indigenous people were subjected to 54.2% of all 15,668 “use of force” events recorded by police and 25.8% .