Paid By The Ticket

How often in folklore has it been said that policemen have been living by quotas and not by the Constitution? Well, maybe this isn't as radical as all that but it turns out that those tickets found on the windshields of unsuspecting victims have occasionally been a waste of paper to fill recently uncovered quotas. Here is what The New York Times had to say:

For nearly every New Yorker who has received a summons in the city — caught at a checkpoint monitoring seat-belt use, or approached by a small army of police officers descending on illegally parked cars — quotas are a maddening fact of life.
No matter how often the Police Department denies the existence of quotas, many New Yorkers will swear that officers are sometimes forced to write a certain number of tickets in a certain amount of time.
Now, in a secret recording made in a police station in Brooklyn, there is persuasive evidence of the existence of quotas.

The maddening proof exists. Possibly not only in New York and not only with ticket write ups. Not to be extremist, but where do the quotas end and the real police work begin?