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RICHARDSON, Texas Officer Kayla Walker of the Richardson Police Department recently stood before the city council and accused her bosses of violating state law by enforcing a traffic ticket quota, according to a local report. She was described as a “brave policewoman” by a reporter for The Dallas Morning News.
Ticket quotas are illegal in Texas. Walker says the department has done this for decades. She told the council she was speaking on behalf of current and former officers. She later said that’s about 30 people, according to the report.
In her words: “The Richardson Police Department has been illegally using quotas to evaluate and discipline officers. Patrol officers are threatened with punishments for not writing enough tickets, arresting enough people and making enough citizen contacts.”
A Texas police officer publicly accuses her department of breaking the law with ticket quotas
A 13-year veteran of the Richardson police department doesn’t hold back. The city promises to investigate.
A veteran Richardson police officer stands up at a city council meeting and reveals that her department doesn t follow state law because commanders enforce illegal ticket quotas. Ticket quotas are illegal under Texas law. Watchdog Dave Lieber has the story.(iStock / Getty Images/iStockphoto)
That is some brave policewoman.
Ticket quotas are illegal in Texas. Walker charged that the department has done this for decades. She told the council she was speaking on behalf of current and former officers. (She later said that’s about 30 people.)
Richardson Police Department launches new Facebook page for Spanish-speaking residents
The police are looking to increase communication with the city’s growing Latino community.
Richardson police cruiser. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
2:08 PM on May 4, 2021 CDT
Richardson Police have launched a new Facebook page in Spanish to increase communication with the city’s growing Latino community.
The new page will feature announcements ranging from food and clothing assistance to crime prevention information.
“It cannot do anything but make the relationship stronger. I think that the good deeds and the good intentions of people and the positive things that go on in our community, we need to talk about those things, and this is what is going to give us that opportunity to do that and foster even more positive relationships then we’ve ever had,” Richardson police chief Jimmy Spivey said in a prepared statement.
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“Mental health and mental illness is not a crime,” Cook said. “If we start working to provide people with mental illness with solutions and we don’t treat [them] as criminals then I think we are already starting in the right direction.”
Tittle said mental health issues do not excuse criminal behavior. However, he said officers can detain individuals having a mental health crisis rather than arrest them if they are an immediate danger to themselves or others.
“That is more often the appropriate detainment, and they do not come to jail, they go to [Methodist Richardson Medical Center] and go to their psychiatric center,” he said. “We just want to be diligent in our efforts to call [a mental health crisis] what it truly is and take the appropriate actions that should truly be taken.”