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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.”