Forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans are being forced to accept that we have no control over our bodies, our lives and our property, especially when it comes to interactions with government agents.
Such is life in America today that individuals are being threatened with arrest and carted off to jail for the least hint of noncompliance, homes are being raided by police under the slightest pretext, property is being seized on the slightest hint of suspicious activity, and roadside police stops have devolved into government-sanctioned exercises in humiliation and degradation with a complete disregard for privacy and human dignity.
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Show Notes
“How the Supreme Court Came to Embrace Strip Searches for Trivial Offenses,” The Nation
“Utah hospital to police: Stay away from our nurses,” The Washington Post
“‘Disturbing Video’ Shows Cops Forcibly Drawing Blood of DUI Suspects — And It’s Legal,” The Blaze
“Spring woman claims constitutional violation in body cavity probe,” Houston Chronicle
“Video of roadside vaginal search revives calls for charges against cops,” Vice News
“Texas Cops Spent 11 Minutes Searching a Woman's Vagina, Found No Drugs,” Reason
“N.M. Man Sues Over Multiple Anal Cavity Searches,” FindLaw
“4 Milwaukee police officers charged in strip-search case,” Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
Cox v. Sampson County School Board
“Ga. Tech Fan Claims Strip Search Over Sandwich,” WSBTV
“'No Refusal' DUI checkpoints raise questions,” USA Today
“Federal Funds Fuel Nationwide Increase in “No Refusal” Blood-Draw DUI Checkpoints,” Ben Swann
“Off-duty cops collect DNA samples at Alabama roadblocks,” Daily Caller
“Forget Fingerprints: Law Enforcement DNA Databases Poised To Expand,” NOVA Next
“JFK Airport officials filter fecal matter in search for drugs,” The Washington Times
“To Track Militants, U.S. Has System That Never Forgets a Face,” The New York Times
Some Who Decline an Optional Iris Photo Are Kept Longer in Jail, Critics Say,” The New York Times
“Iris scans are the new school IDs,” CNN Money
“Eye Scan Technology Comes to Schools,” ABC News
“The Boring and Exciting World of Biometrics,” NovaNext
“State photo-ID databases become troves for police,” The Washington Post
What Country Is This? Forced Blood Draws, Cavity Searches and Colonoscopies