Posted on 09/11/2010 2:13:34 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
An NYPD captain in a scandal-plagued Brooklyn precinct has a name for cops who don't write enough summonses: "do-nothings."
Capt. Alex Perez, in a new set of recordings, threatened to fire less productive cops and talked openly to other supervisors about summons quotas.
"Your workers will get you something," Capt. Alex Perez said on a tape played for the Daily News Friday. "Your do-nothings will get you nothing."
An officer assigned to the 81st Precinct secretly made the tapes and recently turned them over to a lawyer for Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who was the first to blow the whistle on supervisors.
He sued the NYPD last month, claiming cops forced him into a psych ward after he accused his bosses of fudging crime stats and enforcing quotas.
The latest cop to come forward said Perez expected patrol cops in Bedford-Stuyvesant to pick up the slack if officers assigned to so-called summons details didn't hit the mark.
"A patrol officer can answer 15, maybe 17 calls in an eight-hour tour," the officer said. "You might spend an hour at one job. Perez didn't care. You had to meet the number."
Perez wanted 20 summonses from each shift of cops in four different categories - failure to wear a seat belt, driving while talking on a cell phone, double-parking and parking at a bus stop.
"If day tours contributed with five seat belts and five cell phones a week, five double-parkers and five bus stops a week, okay," the captain said on tape.
He appeared to establish quotas even after the Daily News first reported Schoolcraft's allegations in February, prompting an internal investigation.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said supervisors don't have quotas, just "productivity goals." He said the Perez tapes "sound like managers doing their jobs."
Perez declined to comment.
rparascandola@nydailynews.com
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Quota systems for fines should be illegal
There’s a lot of corruption in the NYPD. I got a seatbelt ticket 2 years ago when I had my seatbelt on. When I asked the officer for his name or badge #, he asked if I wanted another ticket for my other passenger in the car. I reported it. Civilian complaint commission told me you and the officer are the same race, nothing we can do. Then I found a hidden # to internal affairs so I reported it. Someone called me a month in a half later on NYE at 11:30pm and New Years Day at 6am. When I called them after coming back from vacation was told the case was already closed... It wasn’t the $80, it’s that I was innocent. If they can do it for $80, what else can they do?
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Seems that FBI stings are about the only thing that can really ferret out and extinguish such rackets. Fat chance of this happening to Rat cities under Obama, though.
I was gently needling a pal recently, a cop.
I sez, “How’s your ticket quota comming for the month?”
(It was the last day of the month.)
He said, “You got it wrong. It’s not a quota system.”
I furrowed my brow in doubt.
No, he said, “It’s a contest.”
Punishment is way to light for the few caught, and all cops suffer for the deeds of the crooked and the blind eye of the climbers.
Ticket quotas ARE illegal in New York. The politicians and the brass are forever trying to get around it.
Serpico!
So lets determine which is the MOST corrupt L.E. agency in the U.S.
NYC, LA, Chicago, Detroit, NO, SF, or Philadelphia?
Other?
I have not been to all of them, but Chicago is the only place that the locals INSISTED on showing me the proper etiquette to bribe a cop during one of their common shake-down’s of anyone from out of town.
I said I would just drive extra careful, they said it would not matter as I was driving a rental car.
I was only there two days, did not have to test their instructions.
Never got tagged by a cop in NY, but I was never crazy enough to drive there either.
I did get the clear impression that the citizens there, and visitors in particular, are just meat to anyone in any position of higher authority, legal or not.
My husband who is a LEO executive does not issue many speeding tickets because he fees that drug pushers get off easier thatn speeders so it’s not all cops or depts who do this!! The brush is getting a little too broad here folks!
My husband who is a LEO executive does not issue many speeding tickets because he feels that drug pushers get off easier than speeders so it’s not all cops or depts who do this!! The brush is getting a little too broad here folks!
Cleveland?
That doesnt matter here. All cops are jackboots.
I would guess NYC is like or worse the most cities. There are plenty of people running red lights and various other traffic violations all the time. It would not take a long time for a real violation to come along. Would it be a quota to expect an average number of tickets each day if the cops were doing there jobs and not in a doughnut shop to be a little stereotypical.?
“All”, no.
Too many, YES!
It does not help that so many “conservatives” like to pretend that all L.E. is infallible, that a badge somehow elevates the wearer to some superior species, and anyone accused MUST be guilty.
Genuine conservatives should know better, there are good reasons for the right to trial by jury.
I hope that their assumptions get altered severely once they are the ones being unjustly accused.
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F
It would be realistic to stop explaining this behavior away.
All it does is make a city that is already on the brink even even closer to the abyss.
A police force that is got its priorities caught up in one area might suffer in another.
It’s like commissioned sales people: Gotta collect to make a living.
Cops should be tasked with finding bad guys, and writing tickets if they have time.
BATF.
No competition is even close, really.
Um, yes, they are a branch of both the Department of Revenue (IRS) and the Department of inJustice (DOJ), so they cast a long and onerous shadow.
I was thinking too small, I was really only considering which cities cops are most corrupt in my reply.
It is illegal in most places. Not Mexico and South America, though... Mr. Perez is mulicultural.
The quotas were the least serious of his allegations. He also has cops on tape talking about encouraging people to not report crimes/classifying serious crimes as minor ones in order to not have bad crime stats. And he has an officer telling them on tape to arrest people on Halloween without probable cause and bring them in for processing and try to find charges then. Thats kidnapping. The whole having him committed for going to internal affairs is quite scary too. Thankfully he had all of that on tape and was able to disprove the official story of events and prove all of his charges.
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