Come January 1, 2015, Illinois will join the ranks of states in our great union that prohibit its state, county, and municipal law-enforcement departments from using ticket quota systems to evaluate their officers’ job performance. Ticket quotas, of course, help ensure a guaranteed revenue stream, but critics say they keep officers from doing actual police work. Besides, they’re just sorta jerky.
Importantly, Illinois Senate Bill 3411 does not prohibit departments from evaluating an officer based on his or her “points of contact.” In other words, they can still compel officers to pull people over a lot, but they can’t use the number of actual citations issued as a way to evaluate job performance. So keep working on your “heartfelt apology” face, your witty uniform-related compliments, and/or ability to turn on the waterworks, because once they stop you, the ticket you may or may not deserve remains entirely at their discretion. At least you’ll know they won’t be compelled by their superiors to give it to you.
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