There's a cop with a radar gun standing on the overpass at 298 west bound and no less than 8 cops lined up at the next on ramp waiting to pull people. FYI.

7/31/2009 9:57:28 AM

Funny, I saw one this morning that didn't look a day over 25

7/31/2009 9:58:15 AM

7/31/2009 10:00:12 AM

^^I totally see what you did there.

[Edited on July 31, 2009 at 10:02 AM. Reason : ^^]

7/31/2009 10:00:19 AM

Ugh, I'll be on I-40 heading east this evening, maybe they'll be gone by then.

7/31/2009 10:01:58 AM

or you could just heed this warning and not speed

7/31/2009 10:02:25 AM

Don't piss off Raleighboy, lest you bring yourself an early grave at the hands of a swivel chair

7/31/2009 10:03:50 AM

no one would take head... take heed, take headed, heeded of... no one would take head of the warning.

7/31/2009 10:06:37 AM

if they were to take heed then they'll just hope that they're gone by the time they're driving or else they already drive the speed limit and dont care

7/31/2009 10:12:38 AM

I thought this was about cops that are over the age of 40

7/31/2009 10:16:05 AM

I don't speed but I don't like being surprised by the po-po's presence either. I generally feel better when they're not around.

7/31/2009 10:16:33 AM

are you black?

7/31/2009 10:18:22 AM

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"I don't speed but I don't like being surprised by the po-po's presence either. I generally feel better when they're not around. "

if your doing things right i dotn see the problem, I like having them around, its funny to watch people freak out, and then look at the cops face

7/31/2009 10:33:04 AM

I generally drive close to the speed limit, but I still get nervous around cops. I just don't want to be the one driver that officer decided to pull for doing a little over just because he's bored or needs to fill a quota.

7/31/2009 11:23:30 AM

i've only been pulled a handful of times
never had a ticket
only met one jackass cop
i do not speed/drive carelessly


i still freak the fuck out when the po-pos around
even just one of them

7/31/2009 11:50:57 AM

COPS DONT HAVE QUOTA

7/31/2009 11:55:19 AM

haha @ no quota

one more day boys and we are free to speed again!

7/31/2009 12:22:26 PM

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"COPS DONT HAVE QUOTA"

that's a fucking lie and stats back it up

7/31/2009 1:17:04 PM

instead of claiming that stats back something up, why don't you post those statistics and your source for them?

7/31/2009 1:17:52 PM

I'm a cop and i have a quota

7/31/2009 1:18:55 PM

^^
because this isn't the soap box....

7/31/2009 1:19:24 PM

i have a friend who is RPD and he has told me hundreds of times that no such quotas exist

7/31/2009 1:21:34 PM

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"I'm a cop and i have a quota "

what city. are you a traffic cop, are you new.

im very good friends with 4 cops, all of work in different areas, and none of the cities they work in have a quota

7/31/2009 1:23:36 PM

casummer isn't a cop

7/31/2009 1:24:11 PM

Cops don't have quotas... they have performance goals. So instead of, "Officer you didn't give 300 tickets this month, therefore I'm assigning you to crosswalk duty at the school for the blind." It's actually, "Officer you only gave 298 tickets this month, you are not meeting performance expectations, therefore I'm assigning to the improvement force (aka crosswalk duty at the school for the blind)."

7/31/2009 1:25:09 PM

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"im very good friends with 4 cops, all of work in different areas, and none of the cities they work in have a quota"

Says them? (few professions employ more dedicated liars than the police...)

7/31/2009 1:25:56 PM

Slave Famous' smart aleck reply wouldn't have been quite as successful if the thread title had referred to the beltline

7/31/2009 1:26:00 PM

lol

7/31/2009 1:26:16 PM

yeah it's one of those things that cops/cops' friends deny, deny, deny, but everyone knows that they DEFINITELY have quotas.

stop lying to the public!! what is the big deal with admitting you have quotas?

7/31/2009 1:26:30 PM

Sounds like a great use of tax payer money. Who cares about NCSU students getting mugged or the crack dealer near Athens Dr. High! We gonna get dem speeders; Soccer moms driving 76mph in the 65mph I40 zone better watch out, we are comin for YOU!

7/31/2009 1:28:44 PM

Quote :

"Cops don't have quotas... they have performance goals."

Translation: "Cops don't have quotas because they don't call them that."

[Edited on July 31, 2009 at 1:32 PM. Reason : ]

7/31/2009 1:31:27 PM

[old] but relevant

Quote :

"Police in Brooklyn Used Illegal Ticket Quotas, Arbitrator Decides Published: January 20, 2006 The New York Police Department violated state labor law by setting traffic summons quotas in a Brooklyn precinct and then penalizing officers who failed to meet them, an arbitrator has found. The ruling by the arbitrator, Bonnie Siber Weinstock, found that the commander of the 75th Precinct, which includes East New York, imposed monthly, quarterly and annual traffic summons quotas on police officers. At least one officer who had a distinguished arrest record was given low performance evaluations solely for failing to write enough traffic tickets, Ms. Weinstock wrote. "The city shall cease and desist from maintaining a vehicular ticket quota," Ms. Weinstock wrote, referring to tickets for illegal parking, standing and stopping. She also ruled that the Police Department must revise poor performance evaluations on request if they reflect an officer's failure to meet the ticket quota. She did not rule on whether there was a quota for moving violations. The finding, which comes in response to a grievance filed by the police officers' union in May 2004, would appear to be the first formal ruling on an issue that has been bitterly contested for years. Union officials have long said that a quota system existed, and that officers who failed to meet the goals faced transfer, loss of overtime, or unfavorable evaluations. In the 75th Precinct, the union accused the Police Department of setting quotas for parking tickets, moving violations, "quality of life" summonses (for offenses like turnstile jumping) and arrests, according to the arbitrator's report. "Such quotas put the cops under pressure to write summonses when the violations don't exist," said Al O'Leary, a spokesman for the union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. "It takes discretion away from the police officer." The Police Department said that commanders can set "productivity goals" but not specific quotas. Paul J. Browne, the department's chief spokesman, said that the arbitrator's involvement began with the transfer or reassignment of 13 officers in the 75th Precinct because of overall poor performance. "The arbitrator concluded that none of the officers were transferred or reassigned based solely on their lack of summons activity," he said. But illustrating how the issue has become a semantic wrestling match, he added that after the arbitrator's ruling, the precinct's command was instructed not to establish specific numeric quotas for summonses linked to performance evaluations. Mr. Browne added that the ruling did not prevent commanders from setting productivity goals, including summonses. He also said that officers who are responsible for issuing summonses would continue to be evaluated on their performance. The arbitrator tried to settle the question, saying that the 75th Precinct did have a quota system, citing evidence including a directive from the commander, Deputy Chief Michael Marino, that tied performance evaluations to numbers of summonses and arrests. She said that one officer, David Velez, who was singled out by at least one of his supervisors for his high number of felony arrests, was nonetheless given low marks on performance evaluations for not writing traffic and "quality of life" summonses, the arbitrator found. Officers with low marks on evaluations are unlikely to be selected for specialized units or details, and therefore, poor evaluations should be considered penalties, a violation of the state's labor law, she wrote. The issue of ticket quantities came up during a City Council hearing in June regarding complaints that the police were becoming too aggressive in writing parking citations. The department said it had no quotas, but did have "expectations" for the number of tickets each parking agent should be writing. "

[Edited on July 31, 2009 at 1:32 PM. Reason : http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/nyregion/20police.html]

7/31/2009 1:32:43 PM

If you don't agree with the laws of the road and/or how the law is being enforced lobby your city/county/state but quit bitching. You pay to play.

7/31/2009 1:35:21 PM

I agree with the laws of the road.

I DON'T agree with quotas. The cops should have more important things to do.

7/31/2009 1:36:07 PM

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"We gonna get dem speeders; Soccer moms driving 76mph in the 65mph I40 zone better watch out, we are comin for YOU! "

the faster you go reduces your reaction time. if you are doing 10-15 over, which lets face it most of you that frown apon speeding tickets do, a ticket is just away of avoiding a carless wreck. so infact they are doing there job correctly. if no one sped, the % of wrecks would be way less.

anyof you understand that drunkin jiberish

There is no quota. and if there was, I would be first to admit it, and right fuckers up all in one week.

Its friday during a travling season. people are in a hurry to get to the beach, they spee, which causes wrecks. the cops are there to prevent that

7/31/2009 1:36:37 PM

quotas exist! stop the madness!!

why the cover-up?

Are you saying that if a cop didn't give ANY speeding tickets in any given month, that his superiors would be okay with that? doubt it.

[Edited on July 31, 2009 at 1:39 PM. Reason : .]

7/31/2009 1:38:51 PM

Quota are banned by law in North Carolina; at least for the Highway Patrol.

7/31/2009 1:39:30 PM

Cops don't have quotas because they don't call them that.

7/31/2009 1:40:06 PM

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"Police in Brooklyn "

i thought we were talking about wake county and NC state laws here. fuck that up norff shit

7/31/2009 1:40:33 PM

Quote :

"Are you saying that if a cop didn't give ANY speeding tickets in any given month, that his superiors would be okay with that? "

Yup, there are some cops who wouldn't stop a car unless it plowed into them drunk. Not everyone is radar certified so you can't just scratch out speeding tickets.

7/31/2009 2:00:50 PM

thank you for the thread

7/31/2009 2:02:08 PM

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" APON "

7/31/2009 2:02:31 PM

oops

7/31/2009 2:09:36 PM

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"a ticket is just away of avoiding a carless wreck."

what would be wrecking then?

7/31/2009 2:37:59 PM

dat ass?

7/31/2009 2:38:50 PM

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"Top 10 States Notorious for Writing Tickets: 1. Ohio 2. Pennsylvania 3. New York 4. California 5. Texas 6. Georgia 7. Virginia 8. North Carolina 9. Massachusetts 10. Connecticut"

i think most wrecks are probably caused by distraction, sleepiness, or shitty driving habits

7/31/2009 3:14:45 PM

Dylan

7/31/2009 3:18:27 PM

I got 20 bucks that says there's going to be a "I got a ticket" thread sometime this afternoon by someone who didn't heed the speed trap warning.

7/31/2009 3:21:19 PM

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"speed trap warning"

GEESUS H CHRIST SON,

[Edited on July 31, 2009 at 3:27 PM. Reason : lodf]

7/31/2009 3:26:49 PM

no bet, too many fools on here would still speed too fast

Quote :

"Cops don't have quotas because they don't call them that."

[Edited on July 31, 2009 at 3:27 PM. Reason : h]

7/31/2009 3:26:55 PM