New Jersey Cops Won’t Face Penalty For Making Too Few Arrests Under New Bill
LAPPL News Watch
December 14, 2020
New Jersey lawmakers advanced a bill Friday to prevent cops from facing demotion, discipline or pay cuts just because they didn’t arrest more people.
A department would be barred from considering the number of arrests made or citations issued when evaluating an officer’s overall performance, under a proposal (S1322) approved 6-0 by the state Senate Law and Public Safety Committee.
Current law allows those statistics to be one of the factors considered when officials weigh promotions, demotions, dismissals, discipline and salaries.
Police “are all too often pressured to write more tickets to increase revenue and help municipalities balance their budgets,” state Sen. Shirley Turner, D- Mercer and one of the bill’s sponsors, said in a statement. Other departments have been accused of having secret arrest “quotas,” she said. “These policies, whether written or unwritten, have fallen hardest upon low-income individuals and people of color,” Turner added.
The
bill would still allow arrest and citation statistics to be tracked. The
proposal must pass the full Senate and Assembly before it can head to
the governor’s desk.
2 comments:
I am unsure how I feel about that.
There have always been ways to measure productivity. Never speed during the last week of the month in Texas. The Sergeant informs Troopers that the numbers need to pick up before the month ends.
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