NYPD: World's Finest Police Department

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http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-10 ... ry-tavarez

A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-11 ... otas-narcs

A respected federal judge slammed the NYPD Monday as plagued by "widespread falsification by arresting officers."

"Informal inquiry by [myself] and among the judges of this court, as well as knowledge of cases in other federal and state courts ... has revealed anecdotal evidence of repeated, widespread falsification by arresting officers of the New York City Police Department," Weinstein wrote.

[Middle Age Russ]

common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.

Quota and other "Key Performance Indicators" used in data-driven decision making and compensation decisions can often have unintended consequences. Any time these things are used, the person or group making the rules should give careful consideration to potential behavioural changes -- some possibly undesirable.