A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in contrast to popular narratives.
What anarchists knew for ages is now being recognised by mainstream.
Ticket quotas are illegal in every state. So the police chiefs often avoid writing an official policy of ticket quotas, they just punish officers who don’t write enough for something like slacking on the job, and then unofficially tell the officer how many tickets are enough to avoid punishment.
Not writing it down makes it harder to prove, which is great when there’s an illegal policy that they’re enforcing.
Ticket quotas are illegal in every state. So the police chiefs often avoid writing an official policy of ticket quotas, they just punish officers who don’t write enough for something like slacking on the job, and then unofficially tell the officer how many tickets are enough to avoid punishment.
Not writing it down makes it harder to prove, which is great when there’s an illegal policy that they’re enforcing.