William Pepe alleges he was subjected to a hostile and retaliatory work environment that led to “work-related mental health issues” and his resignation from the Pompton Lakes Police Department.
They were ruled unconstitutional. The only valid metric for issuing a citation is (belief/evidence of) a crime being committed.
That said, since just went from a hard quota (e.g. 100 tickets issued per month) to a soft quota (a prize to whomever issues the most tickets per month)
The local police department has some metric saying there are X amount of moving violations per day in town divided by X amount of officers so each officer must write X amount of tickets.
That way, it’s not really a “quota“ but a job performance metric they are punished for not meeting.
What we have here is the rare "good cop". And we all know what happens to good cops. If he doesn't learn to STFU one of the regular cops are going to suicide his ass.