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Marilyn Jaye Lewis

You see? It was really true.

If you've already read Freak Parade and were wondering if I exaggerated at all about the ticket quotas cops have in NYC (along with, of course, the ever-popular racial profiling), check out this article in the New York Times today:

Secret Tape Has Police Pressing Ticket Quotas. It says, in part: "No matter how often the Police Department denies the existence of quotas, many New Yorkers will swear that officers are sometimes forced to write a certain number of tickets in a certain amount of time. Now, in a secret recording made in a police station in Brooklyn, there is persuasive evidence of the existence of quotas... The recording makes clear that precinct leaders were focused on raising the number of summonses issued — even as the Police Department had already begun an inquiry into whether crime statistics in that precinct were being manipulated. "