Missouri: Candidate Runs Against Quotas, Cameras

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A candidate for city council in Washington, Missouri has launched a campaign with a platform opposed to both ticket quotas and red light cameras. Guy W. Midkiff says he will bring a platform of lower taxes and less government to his city. But unlike most candidates, his campaign against traffic ticket quotas is based on evidence collected through extensive freedom of information act requests. Midkiff cites internal city documents that show city officials obsessed with shorting up the budget with traffic ticket "performance standards."

"Whatever name you give it, this system is bad for both the public and police," Midkiff said. "Quotas take officers away from other duties, such as patrolling communities, in order to generate revenue for the city."

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On January 15, quarterly review of an entire squad of police produced the following scathing report: "I see no one on your squad met performance standards for the quarter. This is a direct reflection upon your supervision. You will need to more closely supervise your officers to ensure they meet performance standards. Consider this your first notice for failing to meet performance standards for a supervisor."

Former Officer Randy Messina filed a lawsuit against the department after he was fired for failing to write a sufficient number of revenue generating citations.


Complete article at:
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/22/2288.asp

[selador]

1. i have worked for agencies

that have quotas and those that don't.

quotas are bad, mmkaay. for a # of reasons, including above listed.

cop-o-crats (police administrators) LOVE orwellian doublespeak

in an agency i worked for we had to write one cite a day, or we would get "unsatisfactory" on performance review (monthyl)

when we protested that quotas suck, he said "it's not quota, it's a performance standard"

riiiiiiiiight. we had to write them or face unsatisfactory ratings, but that requirement was NOT quota

just venting here.


i made sure to tell people IF THEY ASKED that yes we DID have a quota.

since govt. policies are public via FIFA etc. anyway, that's just the way it was gonna be