No such thing as quotas... right?

[lowthreeohz]

Lots of departments have required contacts, i've never heard of one (beyond this story) having a required quota for actual tickets.

[racrguy]

They call them contacts, society calls them pulling people over

[lowthreeohz]

They call them contacts, society calls them pulling people over

Pulled over does not = cited.

[TeeShock]

Pulled over does not = cited.

Statistics have shown it increases your chances by 83%

[Chili]

IMO enforcing "contacts" is not the same as ticket quotas. Making contact is ensuring that the cops are out there doing something, not just sitting in their car reading a book or on FB. As long as they don't tie in ticketing percentages or anything.

[racrguy]

IMO enforcing "contacts" is not the same as ticket quotas. Making contact is ensuring that the cops are out there doing something, not just sitting in their car reading a book or on FB. As long as they don't tie in ticketing percentages or anything.

Unless they're solving actual crimes, I'd rather them sit in the car and read a book.

[Cooter]

it's a crime to cause an accident because of improper safety equipment

[Baba Ganoush]

Unless they're solving actual crimes, I'd rather them sit in the car and read a book.

Wat?

[Chili]

Unless they're solving actual crimes, I'd rather them sit in the car and read a book.

Patrol cops are supposed to be responding to calls. Traffic cops are supposed to be enforcing traffic laws. Unless I am way off, most uniformed officers are not out solving crimes, that is what detectives are for.

[dcs13]

Let's see Timothy McVeigh stopped by a traffic cop for no license plate, Ted Bundy discovered due to parking tickets. Randy Kraft stopped for traffic violation, had dead body in passenger seat. Richard Ramirez stopped on traffic days before his arrest...
Yeah traffic cops never find real criminals.
You are way more likely to die or be injured from a traffic crash than any other circumstance...