Quote:Finally, remove the profit motive from policing. The number of tickets should not be a motivation to the officer. There are other ways to determine the success and areas of opportunity within a police staff. The number of tickets you write and the number of people you haul to jail should not be the primary method of judging the success of community policing.

 

I would think politicians, not the police doing their job, would be responsible for using the department as a revenue generating source for locality (not a financial benefit to the officers themselves.)  There may be incentive involved, but it's certainly not the police lining their pockets.  Otherwise, I agree with most of what you laid out.

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