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Originally Posted by rubicon
What the Talk Host didn't explain is what personal rewards or recognition a police officer is given for meeting departmental goals.Think about this such goals create a conflict of interests.
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If you are a carpenter, you are expected to build things. If you are a doctor,your job is to treat patients. If you are a dog catcher, your job is to catch dogs. If you are a police officer, your job is to enforce the law.
If you are a police chief and have 20 officers. 18 of them issue about 50 tickets a month, but two of them issue 5 or none, who is not doing his job?
Every job has quotas, more specifically productivity requirements to meet. In my broadcasting profession, my job was to get listeners. If I hadn't met my quota, I would have been fired.
If a newspaper carrier delivers only 50 of his 75 papers, he's not doing his job.
If a bulldozer operator moves only part of the dirt, he's gone.
I believe that there is an understandable confusion between quotas and job performance.
What would you think of a cop who sat on the side of the road and watched speeders whiz by and did nothing about it.
One more question. For those who grind an axe about speed enforcement.
At what speed above the limit should a person receive a ticket, or should that decision be left up to the individual driver?
JLK