Fort Worth police told to make 2 traffic stops per day

West side patrol officers are under new orders: Make two traffic stops a day or face a penalty that includes having days off changed or being reassigned to a different beat, shift or district. The policy, described in a memo obtained by the Star-Telegram as an active approach to decreasing serious crime in west Fort Worth, disturbs some officers to whom it sounds similar to an illegal quota.

"To me, this is a thinly veiled attempt at a quota, and I don't like it," said Lee Jackson, president of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association, which represents more than 1,200 members of the department. The state transportation code prohibits ticket quotas.

Well, if it walks like a quota and it quacks like a quota... odds are that a quota by any other name would still bring in the ticket revenue.

Posted on 2004-04-30 02:26:35.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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