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Posted on 11/16/2006 5:24:50 AM PST by PajamaTruthMafia
I read it differently. The way I saw it was that the issuance of a ticket was to be credited with substantiating 1.5 hours of the workday. A verbal warning was substantiation for only 0.5 hours.
Previously, if the trooper issued a warning (verbal or written) or a ticket, they substantiated 1 hour of their day. The changes mean that 16 verbal warnings, 8 written warnings, or 5.33 tickets would substantiate the officer's 8 hour day. That provides an incentive to issue tickets, rather than warnings, IMO.
I don't think it's about accounting for the amount of time it takes to write the ticket, but for the amount of time it takes to observe public behavior (such as driving), to pull someone over, to write the ticket, and finally to write up the report at the end of the day.
If cops only got paid when they are performing acts like ticket writing and making arrests, there would be no police officers left, IMO.
Wow! You must work for the Commonwealth to come up with that spin on what is obviously a ticket quota system to make up for budget shortfalls. This isn't cost cutting. This is what Libs here call "revenue enhancement."
LOL, yeah, I've seen a lot of that.
Armed revenue collectors.
This kind of stuff leads to profiling of drug dealers which means out of state cars get pulled and searched if they meet the profile.
I have a friend whose son does auto repo work nationwide. He got pulled in Texas one night with NC plates on his car, had nothing to hide and let them search him and the car, nothing found in the car. He was carrying $2000 cash he was paid for the job and had it confiscated, tossed into jail, made bond and was charged with money laundering.
$15,000 in attorney's fees later the charges were dropped and he never recieved his $2000 back.
$15,000 in attorney's fees later the charges were dropped and he never recieved his $2000 back.
Yup. The war on drugs turns the system into a criminal enterprise.
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Bingo! That's exactly right. Massachusetts is the only State in the Union to have lost population for three years in a row. They are driving us all out. Pretty soon the only people left will be State workers, College professors and students.
Actually a male copulating with a female while on duty would be grounds for dismissal. Your sentence SHOULD have read:
If a male MA state cop copulates with a female another male MA state cop partner in his cruiser they win a month's supply of condoms and K-Y jelly.
Yes, that is a refreshing point of view.
From one individual.
But as ladyjane pointed out, in MA it is the law to have a trooper or policeman on any kind of road construction. Their union lobbied for it. Some guys make way over 100k a year in overtime.
I could be wrong, but as I recall, beyond just lobbying for the law, they threatened to strike (or worse?) when abolishing paid details was proposed.
Some of the hours in that over time do not add up.
The details generally are for a 4 hour minimum (that was the case when I used to schedule them)even if it only requires a half hour or less.
Thus a savvy cop can make a pay that is based on more hours than there actually are in a week.
Don't forget the illegal aliens who are being enticed to come here. Gotta get those census numbers back up for 2010. Oh and the Gay marriage is designed for a bit of that as well I think.
And all this time, I thought traffic enforcement was about keeping us safe from each other(/sarcasm).
So what you are saying is that if a police officer doesnt write 6 tickets a day he isnt doing his job,according to the leadership.
Sounds like a quota to me. What looks and quacks like a duck.
Not exactly. Consider that a radio call to respond to a car wreck would also substantiate X number of hours. Basically, the idea is that the trooper needs to be involved in some number of "reportable" interactions in order to substantiate that they have actually been exercising due diligence in the performance of their duties.
The problem comes in with the new scale that weights tickets so much more heavily than oral and written warnings - which provides incentive to write the ticket versus issuing the warning because it covers so much more time.
Now, if the "time substantiation" only includes tickets and warnings, and not responses to incidents and accidents, then we are very much into quota material here.
In my job (non-law enforcement), I have to site my activities to substantiate my work production. I see this much the same, as long as ALL activities are included - not just revenue producing ones.
How many of you thought you would EVER be saying "YAY FOR THE UNION LAWYER!!"
The originator of this idea needs an old-fashioned Massachusetts attitude adjustment:
"The insurance racket "
A very good name for it, indeed.
OK . If you get credit for 1.5 hrs for writing a ticket do you get a minus for all the time spent eating at the donut shop?
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