Posted on 09/15/2010 6:18:15 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. -- An Altamonte Springs police officer handed out so many tickets in June that he broke department records, WFTV was told Monday. Officer Bernardo Rodriguez wrote more than 500 citations in one month, so WFTV asked his supervisor how one officer could catch so many traffic violators.
Rodriguez’s supervisor said he simply targeted hot spot areas where police have had complaints and areas where crashes happen most often, but drivers WFTV talked to said a jump in citations that dramatic must be intentional.
Thousands of people drive Central Parkway each day and chances are a significant number may have been ticketed if Officer Bernardo Rodriguez was patrolling there. Rodriguez issued 555 citations by himself in June, and the average is 150 tickets.
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Drivers said something unusual must be at work.
“As a driver, what do you think when you hear of a spike like that?” Spencer asked driver Paul Nugent.
“Well, it seems to me that they're trying to ... they're trying to just build up revenue,” Nugent said.
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The department says they were not about revenue, quotas or any other bonus system. Higher-ups said Rodriguez was just doing good, thorough policing.
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‘Inappropriate Laughter’?
Hehehe...Great FReepertag (^_^)
It is always about revenue. Safety is a secondary concern.
Higher-ups said Rodriguez was just doing good, thorough policing.
Gee I feel safer already. (sarcasm)
This out to help the local sheriff get re-elected !!
I wish he would move to SF Bay Area and ticket every idiot driving while talking on their cell phone. I’ve already had one accident and at least 3 close calls (no pun intended). Seriously, it’s a real menace on the freeways. Seems every other driver is on the phone.
Thanks...nice to see someone “gets it.”
I have lived in places where an officer could sit along the same road and write tickets to people turning across traffic without signaling a left turn all day long if they wanted to. 555 is only 27 a day, assuming the officer only worked 20 days that month.
If you back up and look at it, it doesn’t look like any big deal.
My kind of cop! I can think of at least a dozen intersections around here I’d like to see this guy patrolling. I’ve lost count of the near misses I’ve had; primarily from Asian women driving minivans who think a yellow light means “Go Faster”. Heck, this fellow could solve a small city’s financial woes and make the streets safer all in one shot.
What’s not to like..??..unless you’re one of the scofflaws...or DWA (Driving While Asian...)...
There were constant calls from “above” to increase ticket revenue and increase arrests while records were manipulated so that crime appeared to be decreasing.
Like society, the fish rots from the head...
A revenue stream of one......
Hot spots are usually made, and not spontaneous.
I wonder how many illegal alien collars Officer Bernardo Rodriguez wrote in connection with those 555 traffic citations.
Quotas exist.
If you back up and look at it, it doesn’t look like any big deal.
Based on your assumption of 20 work days a month, and considering that production rates are based on 7 productive hours a day. (minus 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks)
20 x 7= 140
555 / 140 = 3.964 per hour
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He was writing one ticket every 15 minutes each and every shift.
I think that is a bigger deal than sliced bread!
Time for everyone who got a ticket from him to plead “not guilty” and force him to testify in court against every single person. He won’t have time to get 555 next month.
Continuing my line of thought . . .
If you take 10 minutes to write each ticket and check for outstanding wants & warrants, that leaves less than 5 minutes between traffic stops.
I don’t know where this officer finds donut time . . .
If you're writing a ticket every 15 minutes or so, and it takes you 10 minutes to issue one, then it takes you an average of five minutes to nab each violator. That tells me you are handing out tickets to drivers engaged in non hazardous behavior, and probably taking advantage of poorly designed road features or unnaturally low speed limits.
It's highly unlikely that anybody is in one piece today because this officer is out making the roadway safe. Auto insurance companies are more whole though.
Wow! That’s 25 per day, @ a rate of 3 per hour, based on 22 workdays per month.
I live and work in eastern North Carolina, and after getting three speeding tickets in a two-month period in the Clayton area last summer I devised my devious plan for revenge: I drive the posted speed limit, always.
No matter where or when, I watch the speed limit signs like a hawk and do not drive a single mph over the limit. I encourage every one of my friends and acquaintances to do likewise.
If nobody was a speeder, they’d have to look somewhere else for their revenue. I’m not sure that’s what the town of Clayton really wanted, but that’s what they’re getting from me.
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