Gregory's ServerCT 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.
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@msbellows @JoshuaHolland If you rearrange that headline, you get what some think really happened on Bundy, and not the obvious suspected scenario.   @jeber @JoshuaHolland you know what they say: “you only have to enter 60k fake tickets once, but you have to be antiracist every day “  @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?   @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.  @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.  @vfrmedia @Tattered @JoshuaHolland What the apartheid-era South Africans called an "Honorary White" to make it totally not racist at all. @Tattered @JoshuaHolland   This mechanism was designed and built by the state to create the illusion of addressing racism in their cop-corps. But it was intended from the get-go for the crooked blue sadists to abuse it to protect themselves. If they ever wanted honesty (spoiler alert: they didn't) tickets would be submitted to one database.  @GGMcBG @JoshuaHolland This is basic stuff, and that that obviously didn't happen is an indictment in itself.  @croyle @JoshuaHolland Sorry, best we can do is paid leave and maybe a job with a neighboring department. That’ll show em! @JoshuaHolland Thanks for sharing. Something to look out for in other states. Takes all our voices to callout injustice.  @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.  @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. @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.  I 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.  @JoshuaHolland |
The agency, which "has a track record of sweeping trooper wrongdoing under the rug," is partnering in the investigation.