The quota system that drives the NYPD’s patrol forces must be replaced with a system that rewards positive contacts between cops and citizens in order to achieve Mayor de Blasio’s goal of collaboration between police and community, the Police Reform Organizing Project said in a report released Sept. 30.
Robert Gangi, executive director of PROP, said the quota system enforced during the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg “is an incentive for bad policing.” He referred to the ruling a year ago by U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin that the NYPD was making unconstitutional stops-and-frisks, in which she said police officers were ticketing or arresting people for offenses that never took place because of pressure to make their numbers.
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