NEW YORK [NY1] — The New York Police Department is denying a report it forces officers to write a certain number of summonses, despite new secret recordings suggesting a quota system is in place.
NYPD Denies Report Of Police Ticket Quotas
NEW YORK [NY1] — The New York Police Department is denying a report it forces officers to write a certain number of summonses, despite new secret recordings suggesting a quota system is in place.
The New York Times released the recordings, reportedly made by an officer at the 81st precinct in Brooklyn.
It is the latest in a series of secret tapes made by officers who say mandatory ticket quotas interfere with other important police work and damage community relations.
The tapes include a police captain warning officers that his commanders are demanding each officer write 20 summonses a week for low-level infractions and traffic violations.
The recording says at one point, “They’re counting seatbelts and cell phones. They’re counting double-parkers and bus stops. If tours contributed five seatbelts and five cell phones a week, five double-parkers and five bus stops a week, okay. If I get the same numbers from the third platoon, whenever midnight kicks, in it’s gravy. But you as the bosses have to demand this and have to count it.”
A police spokesman says the recordings do not prove a quota system and are just
examples of supervisors trying to motivate under-performing officers.
Mush
Ye right.
We saw the police today going from car to car checking if their inspection was expired. Why else if not to fulfill ticket quotas?
zalman moshe
I watch in amazement how the cops walk my block all damn day trying to figure out a way to give a ticket (kingston and Montgomery block).
I almost wonder if they start thier shift thinking how can I protect people,help people,etc…. or write the most tickets as possible.
I heard they are starting to write tickets for J walking on Montgomery st we need a guy like Al Sharpton to put a stop to the abuse we take every day!!!!!!
I feel we let them abuse us to a crazy level we need a press confrence with threats we will carry out ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!!