http://m.wral.com/w/localnews/story/66380549/

7/3/2012 11:20:29 PM

What's this about? 25 cents?

7/3/2012 11:41:20 PM

really? m.wral.com? jeez

7/3/2012 11:54:04 PM

It's not a quota. It's performance based evaluations. That's why WRAL included the word quasi. I'm wondering why you left it out.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quota

7/4/2012 12:08:49 AM

but the performance is effectively based on a quota.

7/4/2012 12:09:33 AM

Teamsters?

Isn't that nothing more than a legal gang?

7/4/2012 12:10:13 AM

Quote :

"but the performance is effectively based on a quota"

I don't see a quota at all. Just comparisons between all the officers.

A quota means each officer needs to issue X number of tickets per time period. Surely you can see the difference.

7/4/2012 12:17:45 AM

It is a quota, your employment evaluations are based on #of tickets written.

7/4/2012 12:55:47 AM

It is a quota, your employment evaluations are based on #of tickets written.

7/4/2012 12:55:47 AM

Hmmmm...I know of a couple cops who are total losers and suck at their jobs...but I doubt this evaluation system is actually going to do anything about them. It's really just gonna be a pain in everybody's butt.

Plus, weren't cops already being evaluated based on tickets? Like, if a guy wrote substantially less tickets than everybody else, then you kinda knew he was screwing around on the job unless he was involved in some lengthy investigative work (which you could check for).

7/4/2012 1:07:20 AM

It is a quota. Your performance evaluations are based on the # of tickets written.

7/4/2012 1:40:21 AM

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quota

7/4/2012 2:13:49 AM

It is a quasi-quota. Your performance evaluations are based on the # of tickets written.

7/4/2012 10:26:02 AM

It is a quasi-quota. Your quasi-performance evaluations are based on the # of quasi-tickets written.

7/4/2012 10:30:44 AM

More tickets better performance.

Be prepared to get tickets.

7/4/2012 11:03:57 AM

That's fine. I deserve them.

7/4/2012 11:10:16 AM

if cops are complaining about it, it's gotta be pretty damn bad

[Edited on July 4, 2012 at 11:13 AM. Reason : depts depend on money from tickets. not enough tickets = not enough money. ie they all have quotas]

7/4/2012 11:11:41 AM

lots of dumb ITT

7/4/2012 11:17:09 AM

as if the court system isn't already overwhelmed with BS fines & tickets from uneducated under-qualified officers on a power trip.

7/4/2012 11:43:20 AM

Police could easily meet their quota on my street. Crazy people going 40 in a 25 all day.

7/4/2012 12:08:57 PM

^ 40 in a 25 is pretty standard Who actually expects anyone to go 25? Psh

7/4/2012 12:45:02 PM

40 on a cul de sac road is pretty nuts imo. Unless going to court for running over a kid is your idea of a good time

7/4/2012 12:50:12 PM

little fucker oughta stay out the damn road

7/4/2012 12:52:06 PM

All PDs have de-facto quotas...if every 5-0 is writing 27 tickets per month and Officer Doughnut is only writing 10 tickets, his boss is gonna ask why his ticket count is so low. In turn, Officer Doughnut is going to start writing more tickets.

De-facto quota

7/4/2012 2:04:24 PM

I am gonna go ahead and beat my kids if I catch them standing in the road, if they say it hurts Im gonna tell them not as bad as getting hit by a car.

7/4/2012 2:07:05 PM

Almost every agency has a performance based evaluation. Its not the best concept but its the most valid. Some of these evaluation systems - the good ones - will measure the officers free time vs. other activity, self initiated (serving warrants, special checks, traffic enforcement etc,) - which seems to be what Raleigh is trying to do - but not favor one over the other.

I know officers who don't write any tickets but when they are free, they are out serving warrants, or working dope houses, etc and that should show up in a good evaluation system.

It sounds like the union is trying to cry foul and calling it a quota.



[Edited on July 4, 2012 at 5:42 PM. Reason : ...]

7/4/2012 5:40:16 PM

Quote :

" 40 in a 25 is pretty standard Who actually expects anyone to go 25? Psh"

I'd say that I probably spend more time exceeding the speed limit by >15 mph than I spend at 10-over or less, but I never go more than 25 in my neighborhood, where the speed limit is 25. Hell, lots of times, I'm at more like 20-22 or so.

7/4/2012 5:46:26 PM