Quota by any other name: NYPD bosses tell cops to issue more summonses

BY Bob Kappstatter
NY Daily News
Sep. 19, 2011

The ongoing ticket-writing slowdown by fedup NYPD cops has become so costly to the city that a top police commander seems to have resorted to using a dreaded word in policing: quota.

Furious that so many cops are pocketing their summons books, the NYPD's chief of transportation asked a commander at a recent meeting if his cops had written 15 summonses for the month, police sources said.

Police brass deny imposing quotas on the ranks, preferring to call them "productivity goals," sources said.

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