decline of society, injustice, laws, police corruption, police state, prison planet, quotas, revenue generation, traffic tickets



Police ticket and arrest quotas put citizens at risk of having false evidence planted and being put in the justice system for non crimes such as: not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign on a deserted stretch of road; traveling five mph over the speed limit on a downhill; going two mph over the speed limit in a school zone; having an open container of alcohol while sitting on your own front porch drinking a beer.

When police are given ticket and arrest quotas they are forced to prey upon the public to keep their jobs. This sets up an even more distorted us vs them mentality on the part of the police. This forces police to look for every possible infraction, no matter how small. If police do not meet their quotas, they must lie and plant false evidence to keep their jobs.

Ticket and arrest quotas are partly responsible for precrime police activity and the destruction of our rights and freedoms. Precrime activity includes stop and frisk of people who are walking. Checkpoints for cars which are pulled over for no reason and searched. Searches of cars whose drivers were pulled over for minor infractions like improper lane change and failure to display turn signal in a timely manner. Forced blood draws of people suspected of driving while intoxicated, who, in most cases, are found to be handicapped or suffering a medical emergency such as stroke, mild heart attack or a diabetic event which the quota hungry police mistake for intoxication.

It is time to end ticket and arrest quotas for police. Let them do their job as originally intended: protect and serve the people. Not hassle, abuse and use them.

More info: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/27/active-duty-cop-the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-people/#.TyLRMuf-TkM.reddit

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