The ticket reports under scrutiny may have also irrevocably tainted the racial data that the state collects on traffic stops. That is because the motorists who were purportedly stopped were disproportionately white, said Mr. 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.
It sounds like they couldn’t find enough white motorists to pull over so they manufactured some (well, apparently a lot) to meet the “equity” requirements.
If raises and bonuses were based on “making the race numbers” that is a very strong incentive to cheat.
It also allows them to avoid making risky perhaps life threatening stops on minority filled vehicles—particularly if no assistance will be easily available if things go bad.
It sounds like this could be happening in many states—CT may just have had an honest audit.
Actually, I can almost guarantee you they fake reported mostly white people to get the percentages up. They were ticketing too many blacks and had to do something to get the number to where they would not end up on the front page news as being racist for pulling over a high percentage of blacks.
They were not targeting blacks, it is just that group breaks more laws than any other group in this country (DOJ stats) but scream that all laws are racist. Almost everywhere I drive in in our country the worst traffic law offenders are black.