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Originally Posted by Pinarello Rider
I get that, and it's a crying shame. And as the deadline for meeting the quotas approach, what falls in that net of "ticketable" suddenly gets bigger. In other words, what was acceptable yesterday, isn't acceptable today. The cops and the drivers are both the victims of a system that is completely jacked up.
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That sentence sums it all up! Google up CompStat... This has been implemented in Chesterfield and it's all about stats now. Just like factory workers working a production line have quotas to meet, cops now are accountable as well for the amount of traffic stops, tickets, DUIs and arrests being made per month. Don't produce numbers to their likings (supervision) and you will start getting written up for lack of production and not meeting expectations.
Like you said, where before people would never get written for petty tickets such as defective headlights or blown out license plate lights, not it's fair game because at the end of the month, a cop will want to have at LEAST, an average of 1 ticket per work day during the month and 1 DUI arrest per month as well. Officer discretion has to be reduced if you want to keep your job.