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Experts say the practice can lead to disparities even when officers aren’t deliberately targeting drivers on the basis of race. Because such stops are highly discretionary, implicit bias plays a bigger role.
N.H. State Trooper Haden Wilber was stationed on Interstate 95 in Hampton one afternoon in February 2019 when he began following a car he found suspicious – a Toyota Camry with tinted windows and Connecticut plates.“The vehicle had drawn my attention...
It’s a legal but controversial tactic known as a pretextual stop, used often by the state's Mobile Enforcement Team, or MET.
Michael Vazquez didn’t know why a New Hampshire state trooper was pulling him over one afternoon in August 2018. He’d been driving his BMW on Interstate 93 in Salem, doing the speed limit.Trooper Michael Arteaga told Vazquez he was tailgating another...
The Maine State Police's Proactive Criminal Enforcement Team faces new scrutiny after a trooper was hit with allegations of racial profiling.