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We have an unofficial quota. They won't tell you how many tickets to write, but they will tell you that you have not written enough.

2007-01-05 02:08:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

When a wise guy asks this question, the answer is "No I can write as many as I want". When a sincerely inquisitive person asks this the answer is an emphatic "no". There is more to the issuing of citations that the average person does not know.

Have citations picked up because of problems in a certain area? or at a certain time? Does saturation of traffic enforcement deter the actions you are citing for and thus making the area safer? Does every traffic stop warrant a citation? Can frequent stops, even issuing warnings, get the same result?

Keep in mind that each time you see a traffic stop, does not mean someone was cited.

What other job can you think of that people say "I pay your salary", but then don't want you to do that job? Give law enforcement officers a break.

2007-01-04 18:24:13 · answer #2 · answered by Yankees Fan 5 · 0 0

It truly relies upon on the guy police branch. I artwork at a small rural PD in Illinois as a 911 dispatcher and our officers have not got quotas and are not pushed through the supervisor to write down any tickets. The state police in our district even however, do have quotas. they must have maximum of stops of a definite variety in a month or they are docked. case in point i think of they desire like 5 alcohol appropriate tickets. In adventure i could say that there are maximum city departments have not got quotas...the biggest deparments with quotas are highway patrol/state squaddies considering the fact that all they actually do is run site visitors. They declare it somewhat is to make confident that the officers are doing sufficient workload yet i in my opinion think of it somewhat is the state making them do it for the money...that way they understand what to assume from month-to-month value ticket earnings.

2016-11-26 20:20:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Some of the city budget rely on the revenue from tickets. Some officers are encouraged to step it up on wirting tickets to increase this funding. If I remember correctly about 20 years ago Texas enacted a law that limits the amount a city can use from tickets. I was living in San Antonio at the time and a small town north of there was a well know speed trap. It was next to the freeway going to Austin and something like 90% of thier budget was from tickets.

2007-01-04 15:33:23 · answer #4 · answered by cece 4 · 1 0

no they let me write as many as I want................there is no "quota" but as in any job you do have to show that you are working. In terms of revenue, municipal officers in california aren't pushed to write tickets because over 90% of the revenue goes straight to the States general fund so there's no direct benefit for any particular city. The reality is if you get pulled over by a cop on a motorcycle then you're going to get a ticket because that is their job. you always charge me at the register right? that's just your job and and that's life.

2007-01-04 15:48:38 · answer #5 · answered by statikfeed 1 · 1 0

In a state like California.. where many cities are just plain broke. How do they balance the budget without finding "REASONS" to pull someone over. This is a question you should take up with your respective government officials, given that they are just employees of the city, county, state. So if you see a county is in massive debt, your going to see the police acting like revenue storm troopers to stay fiscally afloat. Now who to blame, is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, you have a president who can waste 400 billion and counting in Iraq.... yet California was 10 billion plus in debt due to the recent energy crisis. Of which many Enron officials admitted to fraud and price gouging. Bush nor Arnuld... touch this issue. So the blame game goes beyond the cop looking to nail you for a cheesy ticket. The United States of America... is pretty much "BROKE" < the city I used to live in has over 33 percent of their revenue from "LAW ENFORCEMENT" of which red lights cameras make up a considerable chunk. Which directly goes to the city. I humbly ask you quit looking at the world from the slanted perspective of a profession that bases it's laws from one year to the next, given the will and whim of it's respective legislators. It didn't work for Rome it won't work for us either. I also ask why you excluded any mention of California going broke over the cough cough Republican oversight of the Enron fiasco.... Greed like that deserves a greater punishment than any ticket you could write out.>

2007-01-04 15:32:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

No quotas here. One a day or one a year, its all the same to us.

2007-01-04 18:08:15 · answer #7 · answered by ofcking733 1 · 0 0

Depends on the state/ city and all. If you are given a beat that is a strictly enforced limit then tickets are required!

2007-01-04 15:32:39 · answer #8 · answered by dragonflyaway69 2 · 1 0

In some states you do some you do not

2007-01-04 15:19:24 · answer #9 · answered by bigdogrex 4 · 1 0

I'm certainly not an officer, have an aversion to them in fact (I think I'm allergic). But I wanted to tell you that this is an excellent question and I can't wait to hear some truthful answers.

2007-01-04 15:19:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

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