As outrage grows over the fraudulent tickets that marred the state’s racial-profiling data, the governor announced an independent investigation.
, describes pervasive logging of tickets in the racial-profiling database that do correspond to actual traffic citations filed with the judiciary. In aggregate, this fake ticketing had the effect of systematically inflating stops attributed to white motorists.
The audit also discovered that troopers failed to log more than 16,000 genuine traffic tickets in the racial database, which it describes as a violation of law. This under-reporting masked the true number of stops of people of color. The twin practices created a “a substantive and statistically significant” distortion of the state’s traffic enforcement by race, the audit concluded.
The motivations for individual officers in this scandal can be difficult to tease out from the data. A 2022 Hearst Connecticutof fraudulent ticketing by four officers, which sparked the current audit, revealed that the troopers had been logging ‘ghost’ stops into the racial database to pad their performance metrics — resulting in perks like “preference for shift assignments, new or special police vehicles, promotions, and overtime assignments,” the audit reports.
The release Hart’s identity comes at a moment with the Connecticut state trooper scandal is widening. Last week a report surfaced that a single trooper had logged more than since late 2022 — or more than 1,000 citations — as being issued to Native American drivers, and none to Hispanics. The trooper responsible for these unfathomable statistics has been suspended.
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