From the (Raleigh NC) News & Observer:
A Superior Court judge rebuked a state trooper Wednesday for targeting young, female drivers in his traffic stops.
Scott M. Harrison was often the lone trooper patrolling Wake County overnight. One woman testified in a Superior Court hearing that Harrison pulled her over and started talking about dating.
“I felt it was very forward behavior,” said Magan Parker, 26, a trauma nurse.
Harrison asked her where she went out and why nurses date doctors. He then told her that troopers often date nurses, Parker said. The trooper also told her that he didn’t want her to be angry about the traffic stop if she happened to see him at a bar, she testified.
“Mr. Harrison’s conduct, as it relates to her, was certainly unacceptable,” said Superior Court Judge Donald W. Stephens. “If he had some pattern as to that conduct, he certainly is not trooper material.”
Half the people Harrison arrested on drunken driving charges in 2006 were women, a far higher rate than that of other officers. …
Via Sally Greene at Greenespace.
