Friday, January 21, 2011

Today in the painfully obvious: Montreal police admit ticket quotas

Something we've all known for years.

Montreal police are now admitting some officers are given quotas to fill for traffic tickets.

The force and the City of Montreal have said in the past that they do not ask officers to issue a minimum number of tickets.

But since the city's new police chief, Marc Parent, was sworn in in September, police said Thursday that they want to bring in a new era of transparency.

Police said officers in the city's special traffic squad are given traffic ticket quotas.


Such transparency. They be admitting the racial profile next...

Read more here.

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