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To: Stew Padasso
Three NYPD sergeants have confirmed what police brass have denied for years: Ticketing quotas exist.

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.

18 posted on 06/20/2005 5:50:00 PM PDT by stevem
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To: stevem; doug from upland

That's not too heavy of a load, "quota" wise. The Work Performance Standards (catchy eh?) in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, were three movers or one DUI per shift. This was over ten years ago, so I can't speak to current 'Standards'.


32 posted on 06/20/2005 6:33:08 PM PDT by investigateworld ( God bless Poland for giving the world JP II & a Protestant bump for his Sainthood!)
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