Report on CT police racial profiling finds less disparity in traffic stops in 2022

The latest official report on police racial profiling in Connecticut finds no significant disparities in how police treated drivers during traffic stops in 2022.

The Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project report finds that approximately 36% of discretionary state and local police traffic stops that involved searches in 2022 were of white motorists, 31% were Black and 34% were Hispanic .

The bill was created to implement the Alvin W. Penn Racial Profiling Act, which prohibits law enforcement from stopping, detaining, or searching any motorist when the stop is motivated solely by considerations of race, color, ethnicity, age, gender or sexual orientation. of this individual.

Ken Barone, co-author of the 2022 report, which is the project’s ninth annual report, said it reflects a three-year trend.

“It’s not that there aren’t disparities identified. But the fact is that disparities in a number of areas continue to diminish. And in some of the tests we used, we found no disparity,” he said.

“Statewide disparities continue to decline. Both in searches and in judgments. And we found no statistical disparity in the results of the checks either,” Barone said.

He said analysis of the stop layout revealed no discernible trend in terms of the treatment of non-white motorists after a traffic stop. But it does indicate that drivers of color face statistically different outcomes.