Sarasota deputies ordered to write more tickets
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    Lightbulb Sarasota deputies ordered to write more tickets

    *NOTE: The current Sarasota sheriff is a former FHP major

    Quote Originally Posted by “Lee Williams”
    Florida law prohibits agencies from setting quotas. However, in an email that was obtained by the Herald-Tribune, Sheriff’s Capt. Ryan Brown wrote to all patrol supervisors: “Our [ticket] productivity is way down.” Deputies were then ordered to “have a proactive attempt at traffic enforcement every day.”

    Brown continued, “I look at the overall number, but it is up to you to look at individual deputies and encourage them [to write more tickets]. I do not want to call out individual deputies and their supervisors – but I will, if it gets to that point.”

    Retired Deputy Steve Hall explained, “Deputies do not want to punish citizens [by writing mandatory tickets], but they have to write [a minimum number of] tickets [during each shift] to keep their jobs. Deputies [and the state statute] use the word ‘quota,’ but [senior] staff uses the word ‘goals’ [to circumvent state law].”

    Chief Deputy Col. Kurt Hoffman said, “If you take his email in context — which I 100 percent support — he’s increasing productivity [by making deputies write more tickets].”

    Many current deputies are angry about the memo.

    Hoffman and Brown both said that writing traffic tickets reduces crime because...
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    https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/2...e-more-tickets
    Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Media View Post
    *NOTE: The current Sarasota sheriff is a former FHP major



    Full story:
    https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/2...e-more-tickets
    Well FHP is understaffed in Sarasota and the sheriff is forced to pick up the slack.

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    You edited and only shared the parts of the email that fit your agenda. The entire article makes it sound more like an email to Lt's to encourage more traffic enforcement. No mention of a specific number only that he wants the deputies to be more efficient in DUI's and wants them doing traffic during their shifts. No mention of a ticket or Warning requirement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
    You edited and only shared the parts of the email that fit your agenda. The entire article makes it sound more like an email to Lt's to encourage more traffic enforcement. No mention of a specific number only that he wants the deputies to be more efficient in DUI's and wants them doing traffic during their shifts. No mention of a ticket or Warning requirement.
    The agenda is to write more tickets --- or else! Here is the most intelligent response so far:

    http://forums.leoaffairs.com/showthr...=1#post3004436

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    In this day and age, and this environment, it would not be unheard of for someone to lose their job over this communication. This is 2019, and people are very anti-Police right now. It doesn't take much. You can spin this 6 different ways, but it's always someone in the middle of the heap to take the fall. They don't like quotas and all it has to do is look like a quota and the media will do the rest. This is the era of social media and email. If you put stuff like this in writing, you're asking for it.

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