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Elected officials in Freehold Township, New Jersey have accidentally mandated their cops be lazy. Looking to increase revenu from speeding tickets the city counsel sought to implement quotas. Instead they pass a law to enforce “bag limits” on police officers.
Ticket Quotas
The city counsel set out to impose quotas on the police department. But one counsel member questioned if the term quota had too much of a negative connotation.
Counsel member Dave VanDyke explains it like this,”When I hear the term ‘quota’ I think indentured servants. Forced to keep working till some debt has been paid. So I asked that we use a different term. Little did I know the term we would eventually settle on would negate the purpose of the new law.”
Apparently no one thought to look up the meaning of the terms they were haggling over. Because a bag limit is the opposite of a quota.
Quota establish a minimum standard. A bag limit sets maximum allowable number.
Officers are limited to three tickets and/or arrests per shift now.
To add insult to injury as part of this new law the city council added wording such that the ordinance cannot be changed for two years.
Counsel member VanDyke told us, “we knew there would be backlash from the increase in tickets being issued. So we put in wording to make it impossible to change the law for two years. Our city needs the revenue and so set it up to keep the money coming in for at least a few years.”
The police chief was not willing to speak on the record. But sources inside the police department say the chief has been “laughing his ass off” over the situation.
An official statement from the department’s public information officer indicates that officers will be expected to follow the bag limit. Any officer found to have made too many arrests or issued too many tickets will be disciplined in accordance with the new city ordinance.
Police union officials issued a statement supporting the department’s decision to follow this new law.
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