The study finds that Connecticut police officers used force against Black and Hispanic people
nearly twice as often as they did against white people. That's during 2019 and 2020 -- the two years
that the University of Connecticut's Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy analyzed. During that
period, Black people were subjected to force about 38 percent of the time, compared with 20 percent
when it came to white people being arrested. This, say the researchers, is a significant disparity.
Bridgeport police report the most use of force incidents
with 264 over the two years. Waterbury police were not far behind, with 229 instances. All together, Black
and Hispanic people were subjected to police force 774 times out of around 13-hundred incidents.