Bridgeport cops fall behind on traffic-stop reports

BRIDGEPORT — A 1999 law targeting racial profiling by cops bears the name of the late state Sen. Alvin Penn, who represented Bridgeport and was a crusader against discrimination in policing. Now Bridgeport could lose state grants for failure to comply with that Penn Act and require officers record each traffic stop for analysis by a special racial profiling board. “Nearly all departments now electronically transmit this data on a monthly basis,” William Dyson, chairman of the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project Advisory Board, wrote June 21 to Mike Lawlor, who oversees criminal justice policy and planning for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

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