Funny you should mention the sporadic ticket writing. Here in Memphis, we cut crime by 30% since 2006 and were rewarded this year with a 4.6% pay cut. Yep, pay CUT. Well, I'm not out in the streets writing tickets, so I'm not a part of the retribution, but the officers have all but quit writing tickets. It's costing the city millions in lost revenue.... I do have a plan to generate the revenue though, and plan to automate the process with our license plate readers. I'm told I can actually get a piece of the action, known as a reward for making the suggestion! Lol
John Harvey -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:34 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] WTF for cop guys on the list Jean Laeremans wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Pete Theisen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Seems the money has nowhere to come from, though. A made-up person >> doesn't pay the ticket. >> > Trouble reading Pete ??? > "In June, the New Orleans Police Department received a federal grant > that provides overtime pay to officers who help enforce seatbelt > laws." > > Bound for trouble...but remember he's a police man ;) Hi Jean, I saw that bit of text but didn't think it could possibly be the whole budget even if the ticketed "motorists" didn't actually exist to the point of paying the tickets. Now that you mention it, though . . . So he would have to clock over 40 hours AND write a seatbelt ticket now and then to "help enforce". Seems odd to have multiple criteria to qualify for overtime pay. Oh, wait, it's government. Ought to see these guys on quota day: Lined up in the median bushes along the road. One guy clocking upstream of it, and three guys writing downstream. And there will be ten in line waiting for the next speeder. "OK, red Chevy, left lane, 76 and accelerating" says the radio . . . I don't know what the quota is, but the rest of the month you never see any of them writing a ticket. If you want to talk to one of them there are known hang-outs that incidentally have the best donuts. Cop management, meanwhile, vigorously denies that there even IS a quota, but after denying it add, "how else can you tell if a guy is out there working unless he brings in an average of at least one ticket a day?" If you say, "well, OK, then the quota is an average of one ticket a day" they say "NO, NO, NO!" Now, with the trap setup they can get the whole month's quota in a day or two pretty easy. If it rains postpone it a day. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
