{"id":620,"date":"2006-01-20T08:28:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/abolish_the_quota_system_now.html"},"modified":"2006-01-20T08:28:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T16:28:26","slug":"abolish_the_quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/abolish_the_quo.html","title":{"rendered":"Abolish The Quota System! Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

During arbitration on a matter between the police union and NYPD management it emerged that cops actually do have a quota system — or, as the Post calls it, the City’s “Dirty Little Secret”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A city arbitrator confirmed yesterday what cops have long insisted — that they are forced to meet ticketing quotas.<\/p>\n

Ruling in a case brought by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, arbitrator Bonnie Siber Weinstock found that the Police Department maintained an illegal traffic-ticket quota system at the 75th Precinct in East New York, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The NYPD violated state labor law “by establishing and maintaining a summons quota for traffic violations in the precinct and by penalizing officers for failing to meet the stated number of traffic violations,” Weinstock wrote.<\/p>\n

“The city shall cease and desist from maintaining a vehicular traffic quota.”<\/p>\n

Evidence presented by the PBA showed that precinct cops had the following monthly quotas: four parking violations, three moving violations, three quality-of-life summonses, one arrest and two stop-and-frisks.<\/p>\n

Weinstock, who works for the city Office of Collective Bargaining, said that only the first two categories fell under state law when the case was filed last June.<\/p>\n

The law was amended in September to make quotas illegal only for moving violations.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

“The arbitrator finds that a preoccupation with ticket-writing to the detriment of ‘fighting crime’ is exactly what labor law was designed to prevent,” she said.<\/p>\n

In response, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said the precinct “has been instructed not to establish specific, numeric quotas for summonses linked to performance evaluations.”<\/p>\n

However, he said, nothing in the ruling prevents commanders from “productivity goals that include summons activity.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During arbitration on a matter between the police union and NYPD management it emerged that cops actually do have a quota system — or, as the Post calls it, the City’s “Dirty Little Secret”: A city arbitrator confirmed yesterday what cops have long insisted — that they are forced to meet ticketing quotas. Ruling in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}