Report Lists Top Reasons Why Danbury Police Officers Pull Over Your Vehicle

A recent report by the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project found that the Danbury Police Department conducted 6,182 traffic stops from Oct. 1, 2013 through Sept. 30, 2014.

The reasons a Danbury police officer is likely to pull you over include: 20 percent; speeding infractions; 39.9 percent; cell phone offenses, 7.2 percent; defective lights, 0.7 percent; display of plates, 0.4 percent; equipment violation, 3.2 percent; moving violation, 14.1 percent; registration offense, 1.1 percent; seatbelts, 2.3 percent; stop signs, 0.4 percent; suspended license, 7.6 percent; failure to obey traffic control signals, 0.5 percent; window tint and 6.6 percent; other.

There is a good chance you will be issued a ticket for your violation as Danbury had the highest percentage of infractions issued among all municipal department.

According to the report, among the 6,182 stops, officers gave a ticket 82.34 percent of the time, a written warning 0.34 percent of the time and a verbal warning 13.10 percent of the time. 5.87 percent of the stops in Danbury resulted in a search.

Of Danbury’s total traffic stops 6.84 percent are for Black drivers and 54.37 percent of those stops involve non-residents, according to the report. Hispanics account for 24.04 percent of Danbury’s traffic stops and 38.36 percent of those involve non-residents, the report states.

Overall, 2,479 resident stops were made in Danbury with 46.51 percent of these stops accounting for minority residents. Danbury’s minority population comprises 38.64 percent of its total population that is of legal driving age.

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