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

Editor’s Note: We first ran this story on April 16 but ICYMI here are the statistics again.

A recent report by the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project found that the Brookfield Police Department conducted 3,223 traffic stops from Oct. 1, 2013 through Sept. 30, 2014.

The reasons a Brookfield police officer is likely to pull you over include: 29.8 percent; speeding infractions; 27.5 percent; cell phone offenses, 10.4 percent; defective lights, 1.3 percent; display of plates, 0.4 percent; equipment violation, 7.8 percent; moving violation, 3.5 percent; registration offense, 2.5 percent; seatbelts, 6.7 percent; stop signs, 0.7 percent; suspended license, 6.5 percent; failure to obey traffic control signals, 0.1 percent; window tint and 2.7 percent; other.

There is a good chance you will be given a verbal or a written warning rather than a ticket in Brookfield.

According to the report, among the 3,223 stops, officers gave a ticket 22.99 percent of the time, a written warning 33.79 percent of the time and a verbal warning 38.5 percent of the time.

Of Brookfield’s total traffic stops 3.07 percent are for Black drivers and 75.76 percent of those stops involve non-residents, according to the report. Hispanics account for 8.72 percent of Brookfield’s traffic stops and 83.63 percent of those involve non-residents, the report states.

Overall, 1,164 resident stops were made in Brookfield with 7.47 percent of these stops accounting for minority residents. Brookfield’s minority population comprises 8.11 percent of its total population that is of legal driving age.

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