NEW YORK, More Officers Getting Sick Of Quotas, Threaten Boycott..

WHAT THEY ALL SAY NEVER HAPPENS...... W.T.F.
OFF THE WIRE
By Ben Yakas
The Bloomberg administration and NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly have continually shrugged off any concerns about police quotas, referring to them as "productivity goals," among other things. This comes despite the fact that the existence of them has been proven again and again, thanks to the efforts of officers such as Adrian Schoolcraft. But now, even more police officers have become fed-up with the double-speech: "We've talked about it. Nobody feels this is right, asking us to write summonses just to meet a quota," one police source connected with the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant told the News.

The 79th Precinct have started a quiet revolt against quotas, and are considering a day-long summons boycott to express their disdain. Another source told the News that six weeks ago, some officers did not write summonses for one shift to protest shift changes targeted at low-performing cops; those changes were nixed thereafter. Officers are frustrated that their supervisors have been imposing illegal quota pressure of them in order to churn out revenue for the city and impress the higher-ups. For their part, management are angry that officers are not giving out enough "C" summonses, which are for so-called "quality of life" violations, like public drinking. In the 79th Precinct, the number of C summonses issued this year compared to the same period last year has dropped 22.5 percent, from 20,521 to 15,906.

That drop off has made Deputy Inspector Peter Bartoszek, the precinct's commanding officer, quite agitated. He wrote a particularly aggrieved note to one officer who wouldn't write the C summonses, which read, "In 4 months, and after 70 tours on patrol, P.O. Denis has not written any C summons? How is that possible?...[I'll] stop here before my blood pressure gets raised higher than it already is." The officer in question, Jeanmarc Denis, told the News, "I guess he's feeling the pressure from Compstat. He feels the pressure and it goes down [to the officers]."

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"New York State laws prohibit such quotas."
Plenty of people say that, including plenty of presumably reliable media sources, but it's an inaccurate statement.

Nothing in NYS law prohibits quotas.

The "prohibition" that's talked about is in the state Labor Law; it prohibits penalizing an police officer for failing to meet any quota based on the number of traffic tickets written over a specific period.
So, if an NYPD supervisor tells a cop that he must write a certain number of traffic tickets in a certain shift, week, or whatever, no law is being broken -- so far. As long as there are no repercussions in the workplace, nothing in the state law applies.
If, though, that cop fails to meet the quota and as a result is reassigned or punished in some other way, the cop has a labor grievance. The law specifies that he can get his former position back, receive any pay differential that was lost as a result, etc. -- typical labor law stuff. The supervisor can't be arrested or anything like that; this is labor law.
And again, it applies only to traffic tickets including parking and similar violations. The "quality of life" C-Summonses being talked about here aren't covered, because they're not traffic violations. Nothing in NYS law addresses quotas on writing those summonses.