Follow Up Study Narrows Racial Profiling In Traffic Stops to 18 Police Officers
HARTFORD, CT — Eighteen police officers were identified as being statistically more likely to stop minority motorists in nine municipal police departments and the state police barracks in Hartford, according to a report compiled by the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy.
The report, which was a follow-up earlier report by the same group, analyzed potential problems at state police Troop H, and nine municipal departments.
That earlier study found that Bloomfield, New Milford, Norwalk, West Hartford, and Wethersfield appeared to target black and Hispanic drivers more frequently.
Meriden, Newington, Trumbull, and Windsor were also found to have consistent disparities that raised the potential of racial and ethnic bias, the earlier study found.
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