Driving In Denver? Beware of the Ticket Quota Cops

 

Denver_motorcycle_policeIf you are driving in Denver, Colorado, keep your eyes out for the men in blue. The commander of the traffic operations bureau for the city has publicly announced that their motorcycle officers are expected to write 2 tickets an hour, or 16 traffic tickets for their 8 hour shifts.

This is so wrong on so many fronts. We know that ticket revenue is a big part of police budgets, but to mandate a certain amount of tickets is pure revenue generation. Do you think that a police officer in snowy Colorado is now under the gun to write a ticket on a day when the speed can only go below the speed limit? Or does he drive by a fender bender to get the kid with a tail light out?

Police officers are their to protect the peace and enforce the law. They are not created to be revenue generators and have the pressure to save their jobs by writing tickets.

For about two dozen motorcycle officers, the order is to write 16 tickets for an eight hour shift. Fall short, and they will have to explain their slacking to superior officers.

Captain Eric Rubin, commander of 79 officers in the Traffic Operations Bureau, contends it’s “not a quota,” but he calls it a “measure of performance” for officers whose primary duty is to enforce traffic laws. “It’s a goal we are striving for,” he said. The American Heritage Dictionary defines quota in part as “a production assignment.”

Rubin said he instituted the quota system last September and the 16 tickets per shift for some 26 motorcycle officers was arrived at after six months of studying officers’ typical ticket writing patterns. via CBS4Denver

Posted May 6, 2007 by
Crime | 4 comments


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    4 Responses to “Driving In Denver? Beware of the Ticket Quota Cops”

    1. cajun on May 6th, 2007 12:40 pm

      It is well known that writing tickets is an income producer in Louisiana. Watch the smaller towns or you will be back in their town sooner than expected!

    2. LilPuma on May 6th, 2007 2:12 pm

      In Wisconsin, they just sit near the border waiting for Illinois plates to show up. :-)

    3. whytegirl on May 6th, 2007 6:56 pm

      In Puerto Rico is the saaaammmeee…only the money goes to the government, who in turn don’t do nuthin’ to fix roads, improve driving distances, and whatever road/building/existing concoction they name it after dead people that belonged to their political party.

    4. LilPuma on May 7th, 2007 4:48 pm

      Whytegirl! “…they name it after dead people that belonged to their political party.” :-) I often think of Puerto Rico while discussing the Natalee Holloway case because I not only don’t understand the legal and political relationship between Aruba and Holland, but I don’t understand the workings between the US and Puerto Rico. We don’t hear much about Puerto Rico unless Ricky Martin’s coming to town.

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