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Ever get the feeling someone’s watching you while you’re on your way to the Yankee’s game? Well, that’s because you are being watched. In order to try and keep up with their ticket quotas, cops in the Bronx have taken to hiding out in secret rooms to try and catch people in the act of something, anything they can write them a ticket for.
The peekaboo policing has led to a string of arrests - and allegations by disgruntled cops that their commanding officer has imposed an illegal ticket-writing quota.
In a recent directive to cops in Transit District 11, NYPD Capt. Johnny Cardona admonished some officers for not writing enough tickets and told them they would not get overtime money unless they handed out more summonses.
“We had a few personnel in certain squads that did not perform to standard,” Cardona wrote in the April 18 memo obtained by The News. “So, effective immediately, those individuals will not be authorized programmatic overtime.”
Cardona said he would evaluate the cops and possibly change their assignments if they haven’t written more tickets by the time he returns from military leave later this month.
So that’s how it works. More tickets for us, means more overtime for them. So the next time you get that random ticket and have the feeeling it’s total bullshit to meet some Captain’s quota, you’re probably right.
Cops: We spy in subways to meet tix quotas [Daily News]
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