Do police have ticket quotas?

You always have to wonder if police officers are required to write so many tickets a day in order to show that they are doing their job and of course bringing money into the government.  In Colorado Springs through a internal police probe, the police department disclosed how many tickets a police officer needs to make on average.

In response to an open-records request, police on Friday afternoon released documents showing they expect motorcycle officers to write a minimum of 11 tickets a day and patrol officers to issue one ticket a day.

But Police Chief Richard Myers described those numbers as performance objectives, not requirements.

When your boss at work, suggests that you do certain things or meet certain numbers for your job do you really think that they are not the minimum requirements for your job? While the chief can hide behind the term performance objectives, it really just means that you could be getting a ticket because an officer is trying to “meet his objectives” for the day.

It just seems like the Colorado Police Department could come up with better “performance objectives” than the number of tickets a officer has written. So be wary when you are riding around, because if you do something wrong and get pulled over by a officer that has not met their “performance objectives,” you will probally get that ticket no matter the excuse.

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Source: www.rockymountainnews.com