Ticket quotas do exist. Otherwise why would the police be so busy with speed traps after a week or two of daily miserable rainy weather. Yea, it is miserable to write traffic tickets in the rain, so when the monthly ticket quota is low, you have to make up for it at some point. But since officers don't patrol the area's in their jurisdiction very much any more, ticket quotas for speeding is always a mandate to generate revenue. Patrolling relates to seeing other traffic violations, resulting in writing tickets for more things. The powers that be, don't like people disputing tickets that are not speeding tickets. As a speeding ticket is just a write it and generally the person pays without dispute, but another type of traffic violation ticket may be disputed, which brings the overloaded court system in to play. And the government really hates to pay for the courts and jail system, so drivers can drive really bad, as long as they don't speed.
Lets look at the other ticket quota. It has more to do with the 'war on non-pharmaceutical drugs' and how officers will use intimidation to make people allow an unlawful search of their person or vehicle.
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/10/ex-nypd_detective_police_plant_drugs_on_innocent_p.php
Former NYPD Detective Testifies That Police Regularly Plant Drugs On Innocent People To Meet Arrest Quotas....
A former NYPD narcotics detective testified on Wednesday that he regularly saw police plant drugs on innocent people as a way to meet arrest quotas.
Most people arrested for marijuana possession are not smoking in public, but simply have a small amount in their pocket, purse or bag. Often when police stop and question a person, they say "Empty your pockets" or "Open your bag." Many people comply, even though they're not legally required to do so.
If a person pulls marijuana from their pocket or bag, it is then "open to public view." The police then arrest the person.
Most of these arrests are the result of illegal searches by the NYPD, as part of its stop-and-frisk practices. Marijuana was decriminalized in New York state in 1977 -- and that law is still on the books. Smoking marijuana in public or having marijuana visible in public, however, remains a crime.
So New York has legalized marijuana, but the loop hole is that the drug can not be seen on public property. But people sitting on their front porch having a smoke of the drug have been busted for the marijuana being visible to the public. Kind of like prostitution being legal, but the patron negotiating with the proprietor for payment amounts, is illegal.
The alcohol and pharmaceutical industries keep pushing money towards initiatives to keeping marijuana illegal. Since people have a safer way to get a buzz on, with marijuana, without then assaulting people or having vehicle accidents due to the side effects of alcohol or pharmaceuticals. Keeping marijuana illegal makes sure that profits don't dry up for those industries.
Then we look at part two of making marijuana legal, which would be it's effects on reducing grow-ops. But as politicians make loop holes in laws, growing the stuff would probably still be illegal, so what use is making possession and smoking of it legal, if people can not grow their own or purchase from reputable source. Even the California medical marijuana stores are being told to close down or be busted for Federal laws violations(one year to election of President and a very hostile republican congress and the President not wanting to give ammunition to the opposing tribe). Another catch 22. State law says it's ok and federal law says it's not.
When an officer catches someone with illegal 'non-prescription' drugs on the person(and occasionally with a large amount of prescription drugs that are not authorized for the person), the collection of the drug evidence is truly on the honor system. So how the evidence is collected and weighed for a possible court case, is up to the honesty of the officer. Or as people who have been busted might say to the officers, "buy your own stuff and don't steal it from the people you bust".
Then we also look at how the officers(for the media propaganda) price out the street price of the drug collected. There was a news article a while back, where the officers called about 10 marijuana plants that were about 12 inches high, the full street price of fully mature and harvestable plants. And the other part of the price calculation will use parts of the plant that is not smokable. So you end up with stems and soil being used to give the weight of the bust, to then give a street price. And the silly media gobbles it all up without question.
In the U.S., officers have even called ditch weed(wild hemp) marijuana and then puffing out their chest in the media on how important it was to bla bla bla. Of course though these same types of officers will go crazy over poppy's on the side of the(sometimes planted by the county for beautification), as poppy's could be used to make drugs(reasoning of, poppy = opium = heroin).
The war on drugs is quite ignorant at times. Even farmers who have gotten permits to grow hemp, have eventually quit growing it, as stupid kids(and sometimes officers for the war on drugs) will harvest bit's and pieces of the small crop. The kids have been kept ignorant about how hemp does not have the THC that causes mellowing effect of marijuana.
Hemp is a crop for making clothing and other things, but keeping people ignorant allows for manipulation and dominance over the Sheeple.
Even the safe injection site in Vancouver BC's east side, is being allowed to operate 100% perfectly legal, via a Federal court case. The program works and why ban something that works. Oh right, the war on drugs. Duhhh. The 40 year war on drugs has brought lots of things to this world, like the Mexican drug gangs and tens of thousands of people dead. Oooop's.
