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Originally Posted by Todd in Vancouver
BINGO!!!!!
As for the quota cops have it is funny to me that people argue of the wording and how its illeagal. It's picking the fly sh!t out of the pepper folks. I know more than a few cops and in my work I get to meet quite a few police officers. Heck there are four houses on my little culdesac with cops living there and I can tell you with 100% confidence that highway patrol have a ceratain number of ticket quota/expectations/weighted average/normalcy/ area under the bell curve number or whatever you want to call it. They set their budgets with a certain number of ticket income expected and I know for a fact of chiefs being demoted or transfered for refusing to hit their target.
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Quota. I have none. I'm expected to work. But...I'm not expected to pull out my ticket book on every stop. If supervisors took away an officers ability have their own discretion, SA would be FAR worse in terms of public safety vs the citizen. That is simply not how it is here.
Yes. Every city relies on an income from ticket revenue. Saying it doesn't would be kinda nuts.
But, l for one, am not expected to write x amount of tickets per day or week. Now, if I wanted to transfer to the traffic division, I would be expected to write tickets. That's what they do. They patrol the highways...work accidents and go after speeders, aggressive drivers, etc. If you don't write tickets and do your work, you're transferred out (to my knowledge).
So please. Don't assume that ALL officers are
mandated or have a QUOTA that they absolutely MUST hit per month/week (or whatever). Maybe some...but not all. Cool? Cool.
