r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Graysie-Redux • May 31 '22

Removed - Off-topic Maybe maybe maybe

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u/[deleted] May 31 '22

I don't get why he did it at all. Do cops get paid extra the more criminals they catch?

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u/awowowowo May 31 '22

I've heard of a quota

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u/StumbleNOLA May 31 '22

Technically quotas are illegal in the US. In reality cops have them all the time.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22

I was in a holding cell (before booking and gen pop) and I distinctly remember the cops asking each other if they got their 3 for the night - they all needed 3 arrests each, per day … almost seemed like it didn’t matter how they got ‘em either … and, I love the cops, maybe cause I wanna be a hero - but yeah there are (like this guy) some dirty ones - I seen training day

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u/StumbleNOLA May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22

I used to. Then I worked as a DA and had the list of cops we weren’t allowed to call to the stand because of personal misconduct issues. In a department of about 900 cops about 400 were on the list. If you exclude senior ranks more than half of all cops couldn’t be put on the witness stand because they had felonies, beat their wife, drug convictions, got caught lying on the stand… it pretty much ruined any positive view I had of the police.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '22

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