Connecticut police filed tens of thousands of false tickets to white drivers, and failed to report thousands of tickets to Black and Hispanic drivers into a system designed to track racial profiling in the department car auto cars
Scandal has rocked the Connecticut State Police following the publication of a damning audit that found that troopers were inflating their traffic ticket numbers and under-reporting real tickets to racialized drivers.
The audit was authored by the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project, which reviewed more than 800,000 infractions that were issued between 2014 and 2021. It showed that troopers over reported by nearly 26,000 tickets in that time. Most of the fake tickets were issued to white motorists.that it’s hard to isolate what was motivating individual troopers.
More alarmingly, still, the audit found that 500 troopers failed to report 16,000 real traffic stops involving Black and Hispanic drivers in the racial database, further skewing data. The failure to record this data is a violation of state law, the auditors said. “It’s hard to think of a reason for doing that,” Ross said, “other than not wanting to report certain stops to the racial profiling system.”
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