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Imagine that! State troopers lying to cover up their biased policing. Inconceivable!
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Biased policing is just the way things are done.Every so often, law enforcement agencies are forced to reckon with their racist brand of policing.
To keep the heat off your back, you have to at least pretend you’re trying to be less biased. The Connecticut State Police dealt with its own biased policing reckoning by deploying the “fake it until everyone no longer cares if you make it” process...
State Troopers falsified over 7,000 tickets a year — or more than 20 tickets a day. Nearly 400 troopers were complicit in this...
Head of the state police, Colonel Stavros Mellekas said he does not believe the department’s racial profiling data was impacted.
Mellekas insisted that no drivers were actually issued fake tickets; officers only entered phony ticket data into state police computers, he said...