PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
I don't know specifically about California - but many places around the country - before the officer ever talks to the driver, she/he has notified the dispatcher where they are stopping the offender, the license number and description of the vehicle and the reason for the stop.
If the cop decides to not write a ticket - she/he has to have a reason their supervisor will accept.
Never heard that before. Yes we called in our stops, and when we cleared we had to give the dispatcher a code that would get put in the computer on whether the person was given a ticket or a warning, but there was no explaining to the supervisor.
And yes quotas are illegal in most places, but the people in charge can get around that in ways. When I was a patrol cop it was generally expected that we would average 1 ticket per shift. So each month you would be expected to write about 20 tickets as a job performance requirement. They don't call that a quota, but a performance standard. What's the difference? I don't know, sounds like a quota to me. Now if you are assigned to traffic enforcement, it was expected that you would average 10 tickets a day. Again not a quota but a performance standard. The reason for more tickets is because traffic enforcement is your job so what else are you doing if you aren't writing tickets? That's why the department is allowed to do those types of standards.
