Virginia Senate Bill 327 – Arrest and Summons Quotas; Prohibition on Establishing Formal or Informal Quota
Arrest and Summons Quotas; Prohibition on Establishing Formal or Informal Quota
Full Bill Text ›UPDATE April 14, 2022: The governor signed this bill into law on April 8, 2022.
Senate Bill 327 would prohibit law enforcement agencies throughout Virginia from “establishing a formal or informal quota that requires a law-enforcement officer to make a specific number of arrests or issue a specific number of summonses within a designated period of time.”
The NMA supports this measure. Law enforcement officers should never be pressured to issue tickets in order to meet a performance-based quota. To do so results in unnecessary, and often unjustified, ticketing which is unfair to motorists and breeds distrust between the community and police.
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