Hundreds of CT state troopers may have falsified thousands of traffic tickets

[JDmac72chrgr]

"STANDARD" IS QUOTA!!! "ROUTINE" traffic stop, WTH is ""ROUTINE" about it??? Slights of language, NORMAL!!!

 

[XS22J8R]

 

[Fran Blacker]

Padding there pension. Friend was a CT state trooper said guys would double their pension by working OT patrolling. He did some but mostly construction duty company pays not the state.

 

[beanhead]

They need to be held accountable like any of the rest of us would be.

 

[hemi71x]

Wow, holy S*#T.
I grew up in CT. from 53-73 when i went in the Air Force.
But really don't remember my few driving years in that state, back in the old days.

 

[Ron_M]

The real crime here is that there is an overwhelming number of legitimate offenders that should be targeted. It appears to me that Massachusetts and especially New York are more visible. I'll leave it at that

 

[wahya]

Amazing how headlines, instead of fact checking, gets people going. I decided to do some research on this report and had to wade through gobs of sensationalizing headline reporting. Falsifying tickets got a lot of people’s dander up, all the way back to when they got a questionable ticket. It really is summed up pretty well from the guy on post 22. Traffic stop data reporting has been around for over 20 years in Florida and apparently the same in Ct. What I can’t understand about the system that they have up there is going by the separate report to get the actual stats, by rights, there should be a comparison between the two that is equal.
Budnicks, love ya buddy, but I have to say check who the police union supported in Ct.

 

[WileE]

State gov DEMANDS $$$$$$ any means possible, so there ya go!!! Does this mean my "SPEEDING TICKET" from 1985 is to be refunded WITH INTEREST!!! Cop in 5.0 Mustang nailed me (center lane) instead of brown Fairmont (left lane) as we passed him set-up in center median. Going after young military guys with out-of-state plates!! Made his quota!!!

If you were exceeding the speed limit, it doesn't matter what anyone else is doing. The "but he was going faster than me" excuse is irrelevant. You hit the clock, you're pulled, you're cited. That's it.

 

[Hey-O]

Any police officer that conducts him/her self in the manner indicated in this thread must be fired and indicted. Upon conviction, penalized to the full extent, then stripped of any pension benefits, and any such funds allocated for disbursement to prior parties cited by that officer, and their driving record corrected. There is ZERO reason for this conduct by an officer of the law. You are sworn to uphold the law.

I agree 100 percent!! The big one here that should make them really think twice is the pension, that's a lifetime achievement award out the window.

 

[Moms68]

From what we've been fed from the local media, the false tickets were a political scheme to more racially balance the citations written so as not to be accused of racially profiling drivers.

 

[68BabyBlue]

We had a Dep Chief that wanted numbers. We fought it and said that was a quota. He said it was a “standard“. He was a douche. We actually won that one. For the most part money cites only help the insurance companies and hurts the working guy.

When I worked with "loss prevention" insurance scumbags during my corporate trucking days, they wanted me to keep a record of every scratched fender or broken tail light. The narrative was I needed to monitor and record everything in the name of "continuous improvent," which was the "total quality management" mantra of the day. Translation - they wanted any excuse possible to raise my rates. No question the insurance industry benefits from higher ticket counts.