That video is your proof of systemic corruption? Law enforcement quotas are absolutely unconstitutional in my eyes and opinion. Very few departments are able to implement quotas without being dinged by the justice department for predatory practices and it is mostly little shit departments in tiny shithole towns for the purposes of revenue. I can’t stress enough how wrong that is and I have a little turd of a town just south of me that is a known speed trap with 1 or 2 officers notorious for that shit. In fact, many of my former officers would not go to back them up on traffic stops because it was such bullshit-but that is the rarity. The captain of the thp sounds like a real twat with the number of contacts and duis, but it certainly didn’t sound like he was telling officers to arrest sober drivers just those that were under the influence which is the law and saves lives. I wasn’t ever big on traffic stops in general and did duis when I came across them or there was a wreck, but if you drove drunk, fuck ya.
And the two “whistleblowers” were complete fuckups and I would bet a paycheck that the dude that fled the scene of the crash was dui because there is no other reason to flee a crash off duty. So fuck him and the female for trying to get a family member off of a dui is corruption and illegal and immoral. I don’t support any of that. Over half the states forbid any type of quotas by law-I would bet in the next ten years, it will go federal-as it should. It just needs a scotus case to bring it into the light.
Nypd used to have a min number of contacts with stop and frisk, which was ruled unconstitutional in 2013 thank goodness. The only time ever I instituted any type of stop and frisk was immediately after some shitbag took a shot at one of our officers and missed his head by inches and I was partly responsible. I used to train my officers and now, my college students in criminal justice, are hat as a police officer-any time there was a foot or car chase during the night-you always went over the path of the pursuit in the daylight. There was a foot chase through my beat on midnight shift and I was training a new officer and I showed him how to do it and we found over 100 grams of crack in the bushes right where the guy was caught. At that time, it was worth more than 10 k and one of the gang bosses in the area put out a hit on our officers and someone took a shot at a cruiser and hit the panel between the passenger front and back door right next to my old partners head. We got called out and I was the street supervisor as a corporal at that time and I ordered everyone in the streets to be patted down, but never did my department initiate some kind of quota or require officers to make arrests with the exception of violent felonies and domestic violence-which are the state laws and nationwide domestic laws based upon the smith mn model from the 70s.
So in some departments, unofficial quotas may exist, but this is the first incidence besides nypd of the early 2000s that I have heard of a large dept use some type of quotas like that-so in no way is it pervasive or widely in use. The only time I would argue that you would or should have to show some type of work results is when you work for a federal funding grant for safe streets or highway grants. The specific type of grant will specify what is an acceptable amount of stops and what the parameters are. I never worked a speed or dui grant because traffic stops were not my bag-getting violent offenders and gang members and drug dealers off the streets was where I thrived-so I only worked fed grants that involved that sort of stuff or I did op orders for my shift that highlighted what was to be targeted and how it was to be done for overtime. But if you accept grant funding as a department and don’t follow the stipulations it is considered fraud and the least issue there is no more funding but the department and officers can get into it if they are not doing stops and if you have ever been paying attention while driving, there are tons of violations everywhere at every time. An officer has to purposely avoid seeing this stuff because they are lazy or afraid to do any work-which I also despise laziness and cowardliness in law enforcement. If an officer is working a grant and pulls over a dui and doesn’t make an arrest-they are likely getting canned or the dept investigated by the Feds. And why should dui drivers not be prosecuted? My favorite and most informative Lt was killed by a wrong way dui driver in Florida 3 days after he retired while on vacation with his family. Luckily, he was driving by himself, it his family was in the vehicle behind him and his son, whom I trained in mma with, ran up to the car to see his father gurgling as the steering wheel had crushed his chest cavity in. The driver was on his sixth dui and the driver is finally still in prison at least for another 4 years u less the piece of shit gets out. But the court system let him slide for his other DUIs and it cost a friend his life.
So again, if you are expecting sympathy for people getting arrested for dui-look elsewhere. If you’re against quotas, so am I-but again, it is relatively few departments and the video you provided, while damnin for the capt, had two criminal cops as the whistleblowers so I have a lot of reservations believing what they say. And as a state highway patrol officer-basically, you’re primary duty is dealing with the highways and traffic control. That’s what you signed up for. In some states and in rural areas, sometimes the state police are the only law enforcement agency in the area, so they are responding to other calls. In my city, you almost never saw state police-ever. They sure as fuck didn’t come into the hood when we had a murder or shooting. I remember seeing some drive by while we were dealing with shit. The only time I ever remember them stepping up was when we had an attempted armed robbery at a pharmacy where some crackhead was aiming a gun at th clerk demanding opioids and the pharmacy manager pulled out a gun and shot him. As we were securing the scene and dealing with it, a state trooper pats on pulls up and orders the scene cleared and they were taking over. We were astonished and it was embarrassing and demeaning and he did it because he was trying to get promoted from what I heard and that was a big case.
