Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the top two leaders of state police will be retiring
FILE - Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Commissioner James Rovella, right, appears with Col. Stavros Mellekas, superintendent of the Connecticut State Police, center, and Lt. Col. Mark Davison for a hearing on state troopers providing false traffic stop information on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Hartford, Conn.
Auditors said the alleged false data was more likely to identify motorists as white, which skewed the race and ethnicity data collected to compile statewide reports. The reports have shown nonetheless that Black and Hispanic drivers are pulled over at disproportionate rates compared with white motorists.
Mellekas joined the state police as a trooper in 1994 and worked his way up to become commanding officer in 2019. He previously worked as a police officer at the U.S. Capitol. Auditors said 130 troopers had “significant disparities” between the number of citations they sent to the court system and higher numbers entered into the race and ethnicity database. They said a total of 311 troopers had discrepancies in at least one of the years audited.
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