![]() ![]() Still another claimed to have issued three wrong-lane tickets, in a work zone, in nine minutes. Another reported three speeding tickets in 14 minutes. Another trooper reported issuing five speeding tickets in 22 minutes. In one case, a trooper logged five registration violations over a 30-minute period. Barone said he saw almost no way that troopers could have made some of the stops they reported. “The philosophy that we had was: ‘When in doubt, give them credit,’” he said.īut Mr. He said they had used an “extremely conservative” approach. Barone and his team kept finding reported tickets that had no match in the court system - no matter how they tried to account for typos or other mistakes. ![]() Barone said.īut the numbers did not add up. “Every time Trooper A said they stopped a car and issued a ticket, I should be able to find said ticket in the court system,” Mr. The auditors compiled their research by comparing two sets of data: court records of real tickets issued to real people and internal data from the state police. Barone, who is the manager of the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project, which seeks to identify and address racial and ethnic disparities in traffic enforcement. That is because the motorists who were purportedly stopped were disproportionately white, said Mr. The ticket reports under scrutiny may have also irrevocably tainted the racial data that the state collects on traffic stops. “The trust and the confidence in Connecticut state police is clearly shaken by this,” said State Representative Steve Stafstrom, a Democrat and the co-chairman of the state legislature’s judiciary committee. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, has launched a separate inquiry. Department of Justice is investigating, state officials said. The idea that Connecticut’s state police officers may have conducted a yearslong scheme of systematic deceit has shocked the public, embarrassed the state’s law enforcement community and enraged its political leadership at a time of national conversations about police accountability. Most likely, he said, “the motivation here was to appear productive.” “What was the motivation here, really?” asked Ken Barone, a co-author of the audit. ![]()
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