do cops have quotas on traffic tickets?

Answer 1

this question is asked more frequently than you may think. i will answer it as honestly as possible. in most states it is illegal to impose a "quota" or anything that may be construed as a quota. i know of one department who got into hot water a few years back because a watch commander took it upon himself to offer a color television to the officer that obtained the most D.U.I. arrests within a 30 day period. however, tickets may be one way for a supervisor to judge a officers productivity. obviously if you are assigned to a traffic car and only issue 3-4 citations per week, there is something drastically wrong. there is also federal funding that stands to be lost if traffic enforcement is too lax. it is not unusual for officers to be told during briefing that traffic enforcement needs to be stepped up for the next couple of weeks, then even the ghetto cars (cars assigned to high crime areas) attempt to find the time to issue at least 1-2 citations per shift. i can honestly say that i have never known an officer who wrote a undeserved ticket during this period of increased enforcement. most officers just kick it up a notch and cite for violations that they would normally let slide.

Answer 2

My dad worked in Law Enforcement and I had always wondered about that myself because I had heard that they did. But he says that they do not have quotas, its just that if they are not giving tickets then something is wrong because people are constantly breaking the law. If a traffic Cop comes in after an entire day of duty without having written any tickets, his supervisors are going to wonder what is wrong because there are always speeders and bad drivers out there. Also, they are not discouraged from writing tickets for minor infractions because the revenue paid to the state to pay off traffic violations helps to pay their salaries so there is some incentive.

Answer 3

Most states have statutes that state that police departments may not have "quotas" or "minimum numbers" of traffic tickets they have to issue in any given timeframe. Having worked within the legal system, though, I know that there are indeed quotas in some jurisdictions, although they may call them something different. Most of the cops I've known have always recommended throwing up your arm and waving at the cop if you pass one when you're speeding. The cop will think you're another cop and let you go. This obviously works better if you're a clean-cut male (most cops are clean-cut males). My husband has done this successfully a couple of times.

Answer 4

Technically they don't have quotas persay, but they have to log what they are doing each hour. In other words, let's say you are a cop and you have logged you have set up a speed trap at 11:00 for ten straight days, yet you have not written a single ticket. It looks suspicious. If a cop hasn't "caught" many people in a month, there are going to be days where they are going to prove they are "doing their job."

Answer 5

there is not any such element as cost ticket quotas. Use your heads human beings, do you particularly think of that cost ticket quotas may be criminal? fact is they are unlawful, and NO branch interior america HAS cost ticket QUOTAS. human beings think of they do with the aid of fact they pay attention issues like this "3 an afternoon" rubbish. Now, in case you artwork a undeniable task like site visitors enforcement and you are available in daily empty exceeded, then somebody might accuse you of not doing you activity. Does that mean there is an envisioned type of tickets consistent with day, NO! merely like if a secretary does not produce any comments, or a truck motive force does not supply any plenty. it particularly is the place ignorant human beings get tripped up. i like the individuals who say "they'll deny it" why do those human beings answer questions they recognize honestly not something approximately?

Answer 6

Not quotas per se, but if a cop wants to look like he's working hard (trying to score brownie points with the boss), he could do so by writing more tickets.

Answer 7

No, but they are accountable for their time. If a cop comes back to the station after 4 hours on the road, it's expected that he's been enforcing traffic, and tickets are a way to show that he has.

Answer 8

Does it really matter, if no one was breaking the laws they couldn't write a ticket.

I say give them a quota, it just makes sure they will stop the people that are breaking the law!

Answer 9

Yes, in some places they do. I used to have a friend who was a cop.

Answer 10

It's always been officially denied. But they do. Those on trafffic detail are deemed to be nonproductive loafers if they don't bring a sheaf of citations back to the station every day.