Richard West
Joshua HollandCT state troopers entered up to 60K fake tickets, issued to imaginary white people, to game a database designed to ferret out racial profiling. (And didn't enter real tickets issued to Black people.) One in 4 troopers were doing it. And it seems like nobody is being punished for this crime.
The agency, which "has a track record of sweeping trooper wrongdoing under the rug," is partnering in the investigation.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
RevJeber@JoshuaHolland
Was that easier than just not being racist anymore?
Was that easier than just not being racist anymore?
enmodo ⚛️ 🧬 🇺🇦 🍉@jeber @JoshuaHolland what if they wanted to remain racist?
A Tattered Scrapbook@JoshuaHolland You know when people talk about systemic racism, and “centrists” get uncomfortable and defensive…?
This, right here, is the system, being racist, using more racism to try to hide the initial racism, and, caught, going unpunished by the racist system.
Connecticut. Not Florida. Democrat governor. Democrat senators.
How do you fix this?
Ricardo Harvin@Tattered "Just move", white people love to advise.
Aaron@ricardoharvin @Tattered And they know you'd have to move to another country to get away from it when they say it.
@hosford42 @Tattered My point is, there's no guarantee of safety *anywhere* right now because fascism and authoritarianism are spreading literally everywhere.
@ricardoharvin @Tattered I agree! Just commenting on their oh-so-pure motives.
DianeLipartito@ricardoharvin @hosford42 @Tattered I doubt this is new for CT. Just because it is a Democratic state doesn't mean anything.
@DianeLipartito @ricardoharvin @hosford42 I think it should, though, shouldn’t it?
I wanted, merely, to point out that the excuse of “the South”, or MAGA, or whatever, doesn’t work here. This is above the Mason-Dixon by a looong way. So, therefore, and unquestionably, systemic.
If the system cannot be fixed, it must be broken.
@Tattered @ricardoharvin @hosford42 Yeah, of course it should, but the idea that Democrats or states north of M-D line aren't racist or traditionally racist (esp. NE & esp. CT) is wrong. I live in MA & see it all the time. On a national level, Democratic racism has to do more w/policy or lack thereof vs. rhetoric. The Dems have their way of keeping everything the same & it is not because the Republicans won't let them change stuff. Mb you know all this. Sorry if I'm spouting out things u know.
@DianeLipartito @ricardoharvin @hosford42 Perfectly fine. It is fair and reasonable to suspect that a Brit living in Japan may not have the best handle on the US.
I think we are probably both making the same point: that any perception of racism as belonging only to specific regions of the US is very wrong.
The US is, still, a racist state.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@Tattered @JoshuaHolland in the 90s I lived in an affluent, liberal area of SE England (the town of Reading, which is a bit like "British Seattle"). Thames Valley Police were instructed to record the ethnicity of those they stopped and searched.
I am of East/SE Asian ancestry (which is code IC5 in UK), but nearly always got recorded on the sheet as IC1 (White) whenever I got stop checked..
@vfrmedia @Tattered @JoshuaHolland I used to live there in the 90s too. But actually being IC1 I never got stopped and searched.
Tom Forsyth@vfrmedia @Tattered @JoshuaHolland What the apartheid-era South Africans called an "Honorary White" to make it totally not racist at all.
@vfrmedia @JoshuaHolland I’m a Brit, too; though I live in Japan, because my (Japanese) partner and our daughter aren’t welcome in Sunak’s Britain.
I’ve had a few adventures caused by taking the “other” side when faced with blatant discrimination. But I’m just a white guy trying to be an ally. I have to go out of my way for the system to notice me. But, oh my, they really don’t like it when a white man stands against them…
Weasel@JoshuaHolland Power Corrupts.
SusanBee 
@JoshuaHolland Not at all surprised #ACAB
Raven Onthill@JoshuaHolland ah, yes, Karenlandia. Connecticut is, literally, the center of old entitled wealth in the United States. Racism and entitlement are are a part of it.
Laure
OhioCheryl@JoshuaHolland So was everyone (data, auditors, judges) complicit? If there were "tickets" issued, were there no fines or court appearances associated?
If there were tickets issued but not recorded, how were fines collected? Did the cops get it in cash?
Do they have no auditors in CT? I don't even get how this would work on a practical level.
@CRSG @JoshuaHolland The article says there were 2 different databases. One for the judicial system, and one to track racial profiling. Because how else would you do it if you wanted to make sure they could keep getting away with it?
@hosford42 @JoshuaHolland In either case, they were reporting tickets. Didn't anyone wonder where all the fines went? 60k tickets would be a LOT of money and since so many police departments fund themselves with fines ... you'd think someone would be at least puzzled.
Full Metal Accountant@hosford42 @CRSG @JoshuaHolland
It just seems like a very simple thing to cross reference one database to the other just by using total tickets entered in each. If there's a discrepancy, get totals by officer to find out who's not entering tickets/ticket info.
Like it could be easily done every week/month. They're not doing the minimum to ensure that.
It just seems like a very simple thing to cross reference one database to the other just by using total tickets entered in each. If there's a discrepancy, get totals by officer to find out who's not entering tickets/ticket info.
Like it could be easily done every week/month. They're not doing the minimum to ensure that.
SamHughes@JoshuaHolland And that is why police trust is fading rapidly. Corruption. Why? Because no one will take them on. The FBI and DOJ should conduct an investigation into this matter if true.
FarbsI miss hacktivism.
If there was a credible threat that the two databases might get breached and the offending officers and the extent of their actions identified, then there might be some action on this.
Aaron King@JoshuaHolland It’s as if the officials, with help from police union lobbyists, designed a system with a way to cheat and then let the racist officers cheat until they retired. Maybe taking the money out of politics would help?
Cherry Coakes 
CW for the above
Ragnell the Mildly Unpleasant@JoshuaHolland How can you reform people who go out of their way to resist reform?
morgan@JoshuaHolland that link isn't working for me, but here's another for the same story: https://ctmirror.org/2023/06/28/ct-state-police-troopers-false-traffic-tickets-report/
David Cohen@JoshuaHolland @flargh It’s an “interesting” approach to require racists to accurately report their racism
girlfreddy@JoshuaHolland ACAB always and forever.