New York Police Ticket Quota Exposed

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=4&id=24282 ^

[konaice]

see # 60.

[Still Thinking]

I agree, quotas are a bad idea, but as Rush would say "run the math". There are 13 weeks in a quarter, so he is expected to average 2.7 parking tickets a week, in addition to 2.5 traffic tickets, and 2.5 "quality of life" tickets, whatever the hell that means, as well as 0.84 arrests/week. Any cop who is paying attention will no doubt exceed those numbers without citing anyone that could be considered a marginal case. The only one I find a little disturbing is the 0.84 arrests/week, but I live in a small town with about 150 cops, where we would probably never see 126 arrests in a week. I'm not sure about New York, though. Maybe there, that number is as low as the ticketing numbers.

[george wythe]

New York City police officers are required to write a minimum of 35 parking tickets, 33 tickets for moving violations such as speeding, 33 "quality of life" summonses and make 11 arrests each quarter according to a handwritten memo obtained by the New York Post. Failure to write a sufficient number of tickets will result in a poor performance assessment and other disciplinary action.

The non-existing quota strikes again.

cops are forced to write ridiculous tickets to raise more revenue for the city or face the consequences.

The city is using its finest as tax collectors or peace officers. You decide.

[TJHillgardner]

Ignorance abounds on this site about NYC parking tickets. For starters, they are not moving violations and ought not to be compared to moving violations. Secondly, I know a woman who beat 21 parking tickets in a row in NYC. The parking enforcement agents issue so many bogus tickets that her record is not that uncommon. Six of her tickets were for overstaying her time at a parking meter at a location where there were parking meters, but no sign establishing its effective hours or requiring that it be fed. But such niceties would never deter NYC parking agents where quantity counts more than quality when it comes to parking tickets.