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No, watching cops ignoring crime and drug dealing in open view in public places damages the trust a lot more.
"Police officers have a certain degree of discretion in taking enforcement actions," an NYPD spokesman said, "as long as they meet the minimum requirements of making enough residents less wealthy."
Ticket quotas exsist??? Oh my gosh! Really??? My sister is a cop, and she says they don't have quotas.....but if an officer doesn't write enough tickets, at the end of the month, they are reprimanded. But they don't call it a quota.
Hah? What's a quality-of-life summons?
Crime, we need more crimes to fill the quotas that don't exist.
I don't know where the "line" is on enforcement, and I doubt anyone else does. But a department which is satisfied on "stats" should be disbanded.
Not good. I don't like seeing police coerced into creating criminals.
The Washington State Highway Patrol has proudly let be known that they have a quota of tickets that they must give out daily for seatbelt violations.
Yikes! Next thing you know someone will say chain smoking raises risk of lung cancer.
My brother spent thirty years as a cop in a Minneapolis suburb. His last eighteen months he never wrote a citation. By then he worked the day shift almost exclusively, and he had advanced as far as he ever expected. When the cost of a moving violation increased to more than $100.00 he said that was just fine, but some folks simply couldn't afford it. So his rule was if he stopped a driver and that person treated him with respect, he would say, "Next time take a closer look for that stop sign," or whatever. Since he worked days, he had a different class of scofflaw than he had working a night shift. Thus he issued many verbal warnings.
I guess at first the hierarchy was a little miffed at him. Eventually they concluded there was nothing they could use to get the twist on him so just figured he would eventually retire. Eventually he did.
My wife and I used to be acquainted with a state cop in our locality with whom she had worked when he was in the military. One day we were visiting, and his wife happened to remark how he had arrested someone the previous week for being intoxicated on the highway. She evidently didn't think he needed to concern himself with such a piddling thing, and told him as much. To which we indignantly replied, "It was a perfectly good drunk!"
So we are presented with the fact that the corrupt city fathers use police as revenue collectors rather than crime fighters.
Next we will learn that democrats are really socialists.
And then we will discover that the living constitution is the resurrected communist manifesto.
Life is just one big fat happy classroom.
They should just write ticket to UN officials only and take them to court when they dont pay !
What happened Stew - did you happen to fall within somebody's 'quota'?
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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.
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.