Want the federal grant money? Write the citations!!!!!

glhs837

Power with Control
http://thenewspaper.com/news/63/6389.asp

We've talked about this before. For those who dont think that enforcement has a purpose beyond the stated "Make us all safer", read the linked article.

The motorist rights group had written to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao (read letter) citing clear examples of what the group said amounted to de facto ticket quotas. One applicant used a formula creating an "equivalent stops per billable hour" performance metric. In November, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) pointed to internal emails from a Rhode Island police department that illustrated how local officials see the federal requirements as an incentive to implement a ticket quota.

"To qualify for funding, NHTSA requires an annual traffic safety plan from each state that must include statistics on seat-belt citations, impaired driving arrests, and speeding citations issued during grant-funded enforcement activities the previous year," NMA President Gary Biller told TheNewspaper on Monday. "What outcome is expected other than the perpetuation of federally sanctioned ticket quotas?"

Here. you most often see these written in Smooth Operator enforcement waves, largely funded as overtime by....yep, Federal grant money designed to encourage citation writing....... talk about a self licking ice cream cone.
 
Top