• Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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      7 months ago

      They were ruled unconstitutional. The only valid metric for issuing a citation is (belief/evidence of) a crime being committed.

      That said, since just went from a hard quota (e.g. 100 tickets issued per month) to a soft quota (a prize to whomever issues the most tickets per month)

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        7 months ago

        The local police department has some metric saying there are X amount of moving violations per day in town divided by X amount of officers so each officer must write X amount of tickets.

        That way, it’s not really a “quota“ but a job performance metric they are punished for not meeting.

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      7 months ago

      Exactly. If there wasn’t a quota then why are the cops always out in full force at the end of the month?