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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Hello, America, welcome.

It is Eric Erickson here across the nation.

The phone number is 8779773-745 if you want to be on the program. And for those of you listening up in Connecticut, I've got two great stations up in Connecticut.

I've got WIC and I've got W-TIC up in Connecticut, or WD, yep, and I want to spend some time with my listeners in Connecticut here for just a moment because there's a big national story and it plays well with a local story up in Connecticut that actually should aggravate every single person listening to the program.

The Connecticut mirror has a story. It turns out that state troopers in Connecticut might have falsified at least 25,000 traffic tickets.

It turns out that four state troopers in Connecticut fabricated hundreds of traffic stop tickets in 2018 alone. And in a systemic review, it appears to be upwards of 25,000 or more traffic tickets. Now no one was

falsely given a traffic ticket. What the police are alleged to have done is they

made up people and gave these made upup people traffic tickets.

The law in Connecticut requires that when a ticket is given,

all the racial and demographic data is put into a database on racial profiling to make sure the police are not racially profiling people.

The scandal should be that the police who fabricated these traffic stop tickets got better assignments, pay increases, promotions, and specialty vehicles,

which seems to be why they were fabricating the quotas.

It appears to be a quota system.

Now, this is where we get not from the hyper-specific Connecticut story,

but into a national situation, is, you know, a lot of

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