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It appears that Connecticut state troopers wrote thousands of false traffic tickets in an attempt to cover racism in the real ones that they wrote.

It also appears that there has been little in the way of professional consequences for them falsifying official records and obstructing an investigation:

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.

"This report suggests a historical pattern and practice among some troopers and constables of submitting infraction records that were likely false or inaccurate," said the 78-page audit released Wednesday by researchers on behalf of the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project, a state-funded group that analyzes police citations to determine racial profiling trends.

The report suggest a pattern of felonies.

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.

25,966 false documents submitted?  That's not a paperwork error, that is a criminal conspiracy to cover up their racism.

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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 state’s largest law enforcement agency during those years.

And the other ¾ of the officers were accessories.  They had an obligation to report this, and they didn't.

Charge them all.