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Interesting. I wonder if this extends beyond NYC.
NYPD Officer Admits To Quotas
NYPD Officer Says He Has Arrest, Ticket Quota - The Consumerist
Interesting. I wonder if this extends beyond NYC.
I had a conversation about this particular issue with a friend of a friend a few years ago at a party who is a state trooper.
His take was that they don't really have "quotas" per se. But when they look at everyone's numbers in the barracks at the end of the month, they expect them to all be similar. If yours are significantly different than everyone else's they would likely want to know why. If they are consistently lower, they're going to take a very close look at everything you do and there would probably be repercussions.
That's how it was explained to me.
I had a similar conversation with a 25 year veteran of a local police force and his explanation was similar. He said although there are no quotas...you are expected to have a reasonable amount of citations. What's reasonable?...I assumed it was an average of what others are doing. He said the one exception was if an officer was granted overtime to run radar or laser on a problem area. Then you'd better be a hammer or you would be having a conversation with your supervisor the next day.
There are several sides to every story. The truth generally lies somewhere in the middle.
Talk around the donut box is that "someone" got lazy and got a talking-to for it. If someone can't make one arrest and write 20 parking tickets in a MONTH in South Bronx, they're either asleep or blind.
I don't know about anyone else, but I have to have SOMETHING to show for the paycheck I earn.
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I heard the same thing from a County Sheriff.Originally Posted by Phlyan Pan
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You'd have to be blind to miss the ridiculous scramble to write tickets at the end of every month. I've seen it everywhere. It's not even really just quotas. There's "Oh ****! We're over budget on OT, QUICK! Ticket EVERYONE!" and "A few of us were talking, chief, and we'd really like some new pistols to replace these old ones." "Well, get out there and start writing some tickets!"
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
More like "Oh ****, the Sgt has been bugging me all month to write a few tickets each day and I haven't so now I have to do them all in one day!"
Tact is for people not witty enough to use sarcasm
Hehe, that too! That's like 99% of people in my classes. Friday, Sat, Sun, Mon to do the homework, and they're scribbling furiously Tuesday morning in the 10 minutes between classes.
And it's not like there aren't people breaking the law everyday. I mean, maybe one or two days you don't see anything, but the whole week? The whole month? I see enough people every day doing things in front of police vehicles. People run the red light 2 streets over like you wouldn't believe. Cops sit in the parking lot in plain view and let them do it all the time. Those are the doofuses going out of their minds at the last minute every month.
Last edited by JStarX7; 03-09-2010 at 01:07 AM.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
That seems to be a Broome County tradition. I see it at least once a day on my commute to work. It's pretty blatant too -- the light is usually red before they hit the stop line. Never seen anybody ticketed for it either. It's particularly bad on 17-C in Endicott but I've seen it all over town.
I had a friend who moved here from California, one time he asked me, "Why does everybody sit at the light when it turns green?" A few weeks later he approached me and said "I finally figured it out, nobody here stops for red lights."
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” -Sir Winston Churchill
I see great things in "officer" polancos career. LOL
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