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I wanted to make those that aren't aware of this aware. It is a major story that has been isolated by the NYPD to the Village Voice. I have not seen any major news source cover this at all and it is a bombshell type of story. It is the biggest revelation of wide spread corruption in NYPD since Serpico. The Village Voice has been covering it in installments for about a month and a half now. A former police officer was able to tape conversations with his supervisors and they are available at the village voice website. For those that have had ample suspicions about crime statistics this story proves that NYPD for about the past 8-10 years has been manipulating statistics and downgrading crimes. It also proves there such a thing as a summons quota. These are just several of the bombshells. I myself would usually argue against those who said crime stats were heavily manipulated but this story has converted me. This is major. Do yourselves a favor and get informed...
I have not seen any major news source cover this at all and it is a bombshell type of story.
I am not passing judgement on those tapes; just making an observation in passing: there's usually a reason why a "bombshell type of story" is only covered by one source. And the fact that the tapes were released to the Voice and nobody else is not the reason.
I am not passing judgement on those tapes; just making an observation in passing: there's usually a reason why a "bombshell type of story" is only covered by one source. And the fact that the tapes were released to the Voice and nobody else is not the reason.
Sorry Fred but your being too cryptic for me. I don't know what your getting at but the articles and tapes are there, judge for yourself. They also have several interviews with former police officers who corroborate...
Think what you want to think about the article or the Voice, at the minimum the tapes offer an inside view into a typical NYPD precinct that you wouldn't get otherwise...
I don't get the big hulla balloo about quotas.
I'm not sure there is anything wrong with them and they can raise the quotas in my precinct whenever they want.It doesn't make an arrest for some outstanding warrant or drug or weapons possession less valid because the stop was originally made by some cop trying to meet some quota.
Whatever the quotas may or may not be they should be higher.
I don't get the big hulla balloo about quotas.
I'm not sure there is anything wrong with them and they can raise the quotas in my precinct whenever they want.It doesn't make an arrest for some outstanding warrant or drug or weapons possession less valid because the stop was originally made by some cop trying to meet some quota.
Whatever the quotas may or may not be they should be higher.
You don't see a problem with cops purposefully looking to reach a quota at the end of the month? Especially if it's all for the sake of creating the illusion of high "activity" or police presence and low crime not really about actual law enforcement. The other thing is NYPD has always denied the use of quotas...
You don't see a problem with cops purposefully looking to reach a quota at the end of the month? Especially if it's all for the sake of creating the illusion of high "activity" or enforcement and low crime. The other thing is NYPD has always denied the use of quotas...
No,I see nothing wrong with it at all.Quotas are used as a measure of performance in almost every job in the world.You are expected to produce or "handle" a minimum number of whatever per hour/day/week/month.If everyone knows there are 1,000 lowlifes in a precinct who have outstanding warrants or 1,000 lowlifes walking around with weapons what's wrong with setting a goal to nab 100 or 200 of them per month?
Without quotas( or performance goals if you will) the cops could just sit around in their squad cars napping.
No,I see nothing wrong with it at all.Quotas are used as a measure of performance in almost every job in the world.You are expected to produce or "handle" a minimum number of whatever per hour/day/week/month.If everyone knows there are 1,000 lowlifes in a precinct who have outstanding warrants or 1,000 lowlifes walking around with weapons what's wrong with setting a goal to nab 100 or 200 of them per month?
Without quotas( or performance goals if you will) the cops could just sit around in their squad cars napping.
There is a problem because they can just arrest people and give summonses for bs "crimes" and once they fill their quota they're done when they SHOULD be arresting said 1,000 lowlifes, they can take the easy way out and arrest someone for bs.
Example: My father bent his metrocard in his back pocket by accident, and he gets to 34st Herald Square to try to swipe to see if it works, and these two cops near the turnstyles tell him to go to them, they accuse him of "fraud" or fare beating or something like that and they arrest him and he had to go to bookings. My dad says he clearly heard them say "Yeah, we just need 1 more and we're done for the month" - presumably about their quotas
ANOTHER example: Me and my friend were at this schoolyard near my old elementary school where a bunch of kids from the neighborhood usually go to chill. Anyways, we're there just sitting down... my friend was smoking a CIGARETTE and these two undercovers came up and immediately put the handcuffs on me and my friend and picked up a leftover baggie from the floor and charged us with possession of marijuana, and once again I tried to reason with one of the undercovers and told him the story and he felt bad I guess and asked his partner "Do we really need two?" and the guy said "Yeah" and he just looked at me and shrugged and they took us down to the precinct. They did however get yelled at by their superiors for arresting me and my friend (17 at the time) for a BS reason.
There is a problem because they can just arrest people and give summonses for bs "crimes" and once they fill their quota they're done when they SHOULD be arresting said 1,000 lowlifes, they can take the easy way out and arrest someone for bs.
Example: My father bent his metrocard in his back pocket by accident, and he gets to 34st Herald Square to try to swipe to see if it works, and these two cops near the turnstyles tell him to go to them, they accuse him of "fraud" or fare beating or something like that and they arrest him and he had to go to bookings. My dad says he clearly heard them say "Yeah, we just need 1 more and we're done for the month" - presumably about their quotas
ANOTHER example: Me and my friend were at this schoolyard near my old elementary school where a bunch of kids from the neighborhood usually go to chill. Anyways, we're there just sitting down... my friend was smoking a CIGARETTE and these two undercovers came up and immediately put the handcuffs on me and my friend and picked up a leftover baggie from the floor and charged us with possession of marijuana, and once again I tried to reason with one of the undercovers and told him the story and he felt bad I guess and asked his partner "Do we really need two?" and the guy said "Yeah" and he just looked at me and shrugged and they took us down to the precinct. They did however get yelled at by their superiors for arresting me and my friend (17 at the time) for a BS reason.
Then they should raise the quotas and make it so the bs arrests don't count toward the quotas.
Your examples do not present an argument against quotas per say but against the way they are implemented.So raise the quotas and change the system a bit.Nothing wrong with quotas,just the way they are doing it.
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