Current Events > CT state troopers filed ~25k fake tickets against white peopl

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https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/ct-state-police-troopers-false-tickets-18162917.php

Governor Ned Lamont said an investigation was being launched after a damning new audit found there is a high likelihood hundreds of Connecticut State Police troopers collectively falsified tens of thousands traffic ticket records over much of the past decade.

The findings, presented at a public meeting Wednesday, allege systemic violations of state law and that the misreporting skewed racial profiling data making it appear troopers ticketed more white drivers and fewer minority motorists than they really did.

Auditors cautioned their monthslong review triggered by a Hearst Connecticut Media Group investigation that exposed how four troopers purposefully created fake tickets for their own personal gain did not attempt to determine if the widespread problems were intentional. They said a formal investigation would need to determine that.
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The report found there was a high likelihood at least 25,966 tickets were falsified between 2014 and 2021. Another 32,587 records over those years showed significant inaccuracies and auditors believe many of those are likely to be false as well.

The auditors emphasized their analysis was extremely conservative, and the number of falsified records is likely larger than we confidently identified.

The findings showed significant numbers of false and inaccurate tickets were submitted by up to nearly one quarter of the 1,301 troopers who wrote tickets for the states largest law enforcement agency during those years.

All those cats, they're beautiful

Cops are so gross.

nexigrams posted...

Cops are so gross.

This. Also all those people are highly unlikely to be white.

Falsified the reports about the number of tickets or falsified the tickets themselves?

Racism.

So what would the racial data look like if 25,000 tickets against white people were removed from that data in that state?

I've always wondered if the smarter racist cops would just arbitrarily ticket someone after they had their fill ticketing minorities or otherwise inflate the numbers.

Number090684 posted...

This. Also all those people are highly unlikely to be white.

No I think the point of this was to make it look like the department was less racist so they're probably all against white people.