Ticket quotas? State Police Sergeant pushes troopers for “18 traffic stops” per day

Ticket quotas? State Police Sergeant pushes troopers for “18 traffic stops” per day

Several text messages sent by a Connecticut State Police Sergeant to his “team” of roughly eleven state troopers during weekends this summer show he pushed the troopers to make “at least 18 traffic stops,” in a day, raising the question as to whether that constitutes a quota, which is not permitted under state statute. “Today is going to a good day to put in some work,” wrote Sgt. Vernon Sanders of Troop G in Bridgeport in a text message to troo…