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Texas Police Set Up Checkpoints To Collect Blood And Saliva From ‘Volunteers’

Posted on November 22, 2013July 1, 2025 by Dissent

Tim Cushing writes:

…. Now, thanks to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, citizens can’t even travel across a single city without being routed off the road and asked (nicely) to cough up a little DNA.

The Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) installed the roadblock north of the city during daytime traffic. They flagged down some motorists at random and asked them to give breath, saliva, and blood samples. The FWPD claims the effort was “100 percent voluntary” and anonymous.

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