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Originally Posted by 2012-1822
I cannot speak for where you are at, but being that is a broad statement, I find it to be mostly incorrect. In the city I live in, aside from University police, Sheriff's Deputies, and State Troopers, the city police are divided into Traffic and Patrol officers, as well as other divisions such as narcotics and what not but I'm talking about the uniformed black and white driving types.
The vast majority are considered patrol officers. Part of their duties are to write tickets and monitor traffic situations in addition to taking any calls such as domestic violence, robbery, cat up tree and all that. Traffic officers operate on a quota of tickets. It's 50 per month. That includes warnings. They also respond to wrecks first, and only if they are busy will the wreck get kicked to a patrol officer. Either type of officer can respond to a murder, shooting, robbery, or fight just as either type of officer can and will write tickets and respond to wrecks.
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I'll rephrase it. Motor cops are 90% traffic cops and 10% crime cops.
Patrol cops are 90% crime cops and 10% traffic cops.
Evaluations of productivity are based on the number of tickets motor cops write and the number of reports and arrests patrol cops generate. Where I'm from patrol cops have ticket books with cobwebs on them. For the most part, patrol cops go from call to call, no time to write tickets.