It makes sense that they would. Similar to the way a detective might be rewarded for catching alot of criminals. What worries me is that if that were the case, police officers might tend to give out more tickets than necessary only to reach their "ticket quota".
2006-08-04 14:08:38 · 8 answers · asked by OmegaGreen 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
It really varies from place to place to tell you the truth. Where I work we don't have quotas but we are encouraged to set speed traps up every once in a while just to show our activity. The only incentive I have is to keep people going the speed they should be and knowing (or at least wishing) that I'll be able to end a speed-related accident before it occurs. Usually when I do catch someone for speeding (given they have no outstanding warrants or anything needing attention and a clean record) I'll see how they treat me. If they treat me with respect and show me what I need to see then I usually try to let them off with a warning but if the person is really an asshole then I'll go ahead and write out a ticket. If you just tell the truth, don't treat the officer like a moron (in the cars that are driven in my area there are 2 different speed gages on the dash so yes, we do know how fast you were going), and produce the required documents in a friendly manner you'll do much better than you would otherwise.
2006-08-04 16:13:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not legal to have a quota in most states. The only incentive may be that 1 cent is earned for every ticket written and that is placed into the pension find for disbursement to ALL cops in the state of Georgia. NOT much incentive. I don't know too many people that jump up wanting to write tickets.
2006-08-04 21:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by davehelm71 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my department, we don't have quotas, and there's really no incentive to give out more tickets. We don't work on commission. :) However, our stats are posted monthly at the PD, so you're motivated not to consistently be the officer at the bottom of the list. There's a list for tickets, another one for arrests, and another one for reports taken, so the department's looking at the officer's productivity in general rather than just how many tickets he or she writes.
2006-08-05 01:36:30 · answer #3 · answered by pvpd73127 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Quotas" as such were outlawed years ago, but officers do have Efficiency Reports that are used to grade them on how they respond to calls, whether they show up for training and how well they learn, and a subject called "Officer Initiative", where they are graded on what they do when on-duty but not responding to a call. Its here where what the officer does on his own is reflected by the number and type of tickets he issues along with anything else that can be used to define his effectiveness as a peace officer.
2006-08-04 21:20:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about now but back in the 70's the Fontana and San Demas, California PD had quota's for each officer to fill per week. Fontana also had a little thing called instant justice. If you were a smart a^&, they would take you to an empty field and beat the crap out of you. They used it a lot on teenagers...
2006-08-04 21:18:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
some counties require officers to get a certain amount of tickets but they don't give out rewards to the person that has the most. they do this to make sure that the officers are really out there watching.
2006-08-04 21:13:55 · answer #6 · answered by Chris D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the particular police dept.
Usually yes
2006-08-04 21:13:19 · answer #7 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We didn't do quotas in Mayberry. Of course, there was very little crime there either.
2006-08-08 09:28:52 · answer #8 · answered by Yahoo Police Barney Fife 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋