Posted on 08/19/2015 9:10:00 AM PDT by george76
High court in Mississippi says state trooper who issued 25 bogus tickets should never have been reinstated with full back pay.
A Mississippi Highway Patrol officer who issued bogus traffic citations to meet his ticket quota was fired on Friday by the state supreme court. All nine justices agreed that the department was right to terminate Sammy William Ray and that the state Court of Appeals was wrong to intervene to give him his job back, with full back pay.
Ray was a six-year veteran trooper in 2009 when a routine audit revealed that he had been responsible for an unusually high number of voided traffic tickets. This kicked off an investigation that uncovered the practice of writing "ghost" tickets. That is, Ray would pull over a motorist, and once he had the driver's personal information, he would add charges to the ticket control sheet that would pad his monthly ticket-writing statistics. Upon learning this, Ray's troop captain charged him with insubordination and falsification of records -- a firing offense. Ray was brought before an internal performance review board, which sustained the charges and recommended his termination. Ray appealed to an employment board.
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Standard operating procedure, and not just in Mississippi.
Does he have to return the back pay?
Firing? reinstatement? How about jail time for perjuring himself in court?
Why no picture of Mr. Ray I wonder?
From the original article:
“Not really,” Ray admitted. “I was just trying to play a numbers game. You know, just trying to stay out of hot water.”
SO the system was set up so he had to write a lot of tickets or he would get in hot water.
What the H*LL!!??
The guy’s commanding officers should be fired along with whoever set up that requirement.
Since he voided the tickets, I’m not sure that he ever needed to perjure himself in any court proceedings.
Mississippi Supreme Court got it right, too bad they didn’t get it right regarding our Republican Senatorial Primary last year. In essence our Supreme Court voted for Loretta Lynch, who said she would not uphold the U.S. Constitution, for the U.S. Attorney General.
There’s one obvious answer.
Another possibility is that the photographer didn’t have a wide-angle lens.
That is just plain low. Falsely charge people with a crime and then discredit them to keep your job. What a scumbag.
In true FR tradition I posted before reading the whole article :-)
I curse like a sailor every time I think about it.
1. Here’s more proof that there are ticket quotas.
2. How hard is it to find someone actually violating the vehicle code?
I know, what a disaster! We’ll be paying a long time for that one.
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