Still, he took issue with the tickets being called “false” or characterized as "inappropriate,” and he emphasized how the report found the discrepancies had declined over the years and urged the public to not rush to judgment.

“I wouldn’t jump to conclusions,” said Lamont, who became governor in 2019, a few months after state police found four troopers had been fabricating tickets. "There’s no indication that was purposeful. A lot of it may have been inadvertent. We’ve got to look into that.”

After all this time, I don’t understand why anyone would, in the year two thousand and twenty three, expect us to buy the “maybe it was just accidental” shtick. It’s 25k fake records that just happened to tip the states racial profiling data away from the conclusion that the state police are definitely racially profiling. 25k is not accidental it’s systemic