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From: Woodbridge, VA
Originally Posted by bobs blue evo
From todays Washington Post :
Falls Church Police Must Meet Quota For Tickets
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 8, 2004; Page C01
It's not unusual for patrol officers in the city of Falls Church to hand a motorist two, three or even four tickets during one traffic stop. Drivers sometimes ask Officer Scott Rhodes whether he's trying to fill some sort of quota.
"I answer the citizens honestly," said Rhodes, who is president of the Falls Church Coalition of Police union. "Did I write them because of a quota? Yes, sir, I did."
Falls Church police require patrol officers to write an average of three tickets, or make three arrests, every 12-hour shift, and to accumulate a minimum total of 400 tickets and arrests per year. In terms of quotas, writing a ticket for a broken taillight carries the same weight as an arrest for armed robbery.
Watch your a$$.
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Falls Church Police Must Meet Quota For Tickets
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 8, 2004; Page C01
It's not unusual for patrol officers in the city of Falls Church to hand a motorist two, three or even four tickets during one traffic stop. Drivers sometimes ask Officer Scott Rhodes whether he's trying to fill some sort of quota.
"I answer the citizens honestly," said Rhodes, who is president of the Falls Church Coalition of Police union. "Did I write them because of a quota? Yes, sir, I did."
Falls Church police require patrol officers to write an average of three tickets, or make three arrests, every 12-hour shift, and to accumulate a minimum total of 400 tickets and arrests per year. In terms of quotas, writing a ticket for a broken taillight carries the same weight as an arrest for armed robbery.
Watch your a$$.
Full article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Aug7.html if link does not work you can login for free.
Originally Posted by NOVA EVO
OMFG that is so ridiculous... 
I am not surprized. Did you get it right in Viena after you pass McLean? if you are doing 30m on 25 in fairfax town thats a ticket with a alot bs from the cop on top.
