CT towns with the highest rate of traffic stops for cellphone use

More than one-third of traffic stops in Danbury were for cellphone violations in 2017, according to data released this week.

The Central Connecticut State University’s Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy this week released its fourth annual Connecticut Racial Profiling Project report, which examines data gathered from 94 municipal police departments throughout the state, 11 Connecticut State Police troops and two special agencies on traffic stops that occurred in 2017.

In 2017, a total of 6,160 Danbury traffic stops were for cellphone use. It accounted for 34 percent of all the traffic stops made that year in the city.

Click through the slideshow above to see the towns with the highest rate of traffic stops for cellphone use in 2017.

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