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Originally Posted by sebberry
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Zulu is correct, from my discussions with acquaintances in various local services, they don't ever use the word quota and you're hard pressed to get anyone to actually admit it
They are "targets", "performance plans", "minimum expectations", production/performance standards". In some municipal services, they are actually set out by the cities, which in my opinion is the real crock.
Honestly though, I can't say I mind it in the realm of criminal targets. If the idea is to make officers more vigilant to a certain increases in crime or deviant behavior, especially when it coincides with publicly announced blitz's and to send a message/prevention tactic that a particular activity is not acceptable in a zone, then it is a decent measure of officers vigilance, standards and the departments dedication to crime reduction and hopefully has an effect on prevention.
It's when it becomes a necessary additional revenue generator in the form of ticketing and officers are
forced to disregard their use of discretion because of departmental policy, that I think it is a pretty contemptible practice.