The ACLU filed the federal suit in 2019 asserting police aggressively questioned motorists and their passengers about their immigration statuses without cause or justification, and held them for federal immigration agents.
State police had long profiled Latino residents, the ACLU claimed, but troopers’ efforts to target people without legal permission to be in the U.S. — using alleged vehicle infractions as a pretext — accelerated in early 2017 to coincide with the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
“Our investigation found that the six incidents described in the lawsuit were the tip of the iceberg, reflecting a pattern of discrimination by state troopers against Latinos and people of color,” Vanessa Stine, immigrant rights attorney for the ACLU of Pennsylvania, said in a written statement. The settlement did not require state police to admit wrongdoing. All six troopers named in the suit are still working for state police, along with a PSP supervisor in commercial vehicle enforcement who was also a defendant, according to an agency spokesperson.In one stop, the trooper pulled over a Latina woman who was driving from New York to Virginia to visit family.
State police highlighted the recent policy changes, along with mandatory training and a data collection program that began last year to capture demographic information on traffic stops in hopes of identifying potential racial and ethnic disparities in policing. “I am confident these changes to policy and training will ensure the department is in compliance with current case law,” state police Commissioner Robert Evanchick said in a written statement.
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