On an unseasonably warm morning in February 2017, a 75-year-old white motorist was making his way north on Interstate 95 in Westbrook, Conn., when he was pulled over by a state trooper and charged with a traffic violation.
That is, at least, according to a traffic stop report filed by the officer.
But no ticket appears to have been issued.
In fact, there may not have been any stop.
State officials believe that the trooper was among more than 100 Connecticut state police officers who may have filed false reports of traffic stops in recent years, possibly to boost the internal statistics used to measure their performance.
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Westbrook, Conn, Connecticut