Memo Reveals Traffic Stop Quotas Set For Kansas City Police

By Laura McCallister, Eric Chaloux
KCTV5
Apr. 03, 2014

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - A new police memo having to do with the number of stops officers are being asked to make has started raising eyebrows.

Kansas City Police Department officers are now required to conduct a certain number of stops during their shifts, according to a memo obtained this week by KCTV5 News.

KCPD Patrol Bureau Staff Meeting memo sent out on March 26 said that, effective Tuesday, patrol officers will be "expected to conduct two self-initiated events and one hazardous moving violation each work day."

A former law enforcement officer says he can see the motive behind the new rules, but that those alone don't effectively show how well officers are doing.

"There must be a criteria in which the police department can measure the performance of individual officers. Traffic summons and arrests are a valid metric, but they can't be looked at in isolation of everything else," said former FBI agent Michael Tabman.

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