Jurisdictionary vs National Motorists Assn in traffic court

I recently purchased Jurisdictionary, a Continuing Legal Education course for pro se litigants. It's produced by a licensed lawyer, "Dr. Frederick D. Graves, JD", who still has his "licenses to practice law", who actually does practice law in court.

JD stands for Juris Doctor, aka "unlicensed lawyer" with a "law degree". A "license to practice law" is merely a court order(s), signed by various judges, in various courts of appeal, printed on fancy paper in fancy fonts, suitable for framing to impress customers. Every pro se also has a license to practice law in every court (admitted to the bar as a party), and can represent any other "person" in any other court, via signed contract for Power of Attorney In Fact ("pro se for a pro se"). "Person" is defined as a corporation invented by government adhesion contract, which includes a stipulation that only a "licensed lawyer" can represent a corporation in court.

Jurisdictionary.com provides a free email newsletter, which is basically an intro with a sales pitch, and a free "print" newsletter named Justice Magazine, that's mainly pontification. The website has a free law dictionary, which is a fraction of the size of other free online law dictionaries.

Jurisdictionary claims it covers divorce, forclosure, tax "and All Other Cases". I emailed Jurisdictionary.com to inquire whether it covers Criminal Rules of Procedure and traffic court, but got no reply. From what I've seen on its website and free videos, and the data CD, it only covers civil litigation without mention of criminal court nor traffic court, though many states like Florida now require Civil Rules of Procedure in traffic court, with zero penalty of jail. The data CD has a section on "Causes of Action" with a Essential Elements listed for a few criminal charges, but not for traffic "crimes" like "speeding" (see The People of Michigan vs Ferency). The data CD includes "Defenses" but omits "Necessity", one of the key defenses in traffic court, or for justifiable homicide in self defense. Odd to omit this info, since 99% of all lawsuits in USA are by the Police State suing frivolous litigation against pro se motorists for the "crime" of driving safely without crashing. I'll update this post if Jurisdictionary does in fact discuss traffic court.

Jurisdictionary only covering civil cases is not a bad thing, since all traffic ticket cases are for alleged breach of civil driver license contract. This fact of law is admitted by Big Brother in all 50 States, since driver license suspension hearings are always civil matters in an administrative hearing, using Rules of Civil Procedure on appeal, not Rules of Criminal Procedure. Traffic ticket trials are usually both civil and criminal trials at the same time, with the civil driver license contract an "essential element" for jurisdiction of the court. All driver licenses require a voluntary signature, just like any other contract. Duress or fraudulent concealment of the terms of the contract, or a lack of "meeting of the minds", renders a contract void from its inception. Signing a contract is a waiver of your constitutional right to travel without an internal passport as required by the Communist Manifesto's 6th Plank.

The data CD does not work from its HTML webpage index with Windows Vista7, so use Windows Explorer and click each file separately. Includes a selection of copyright-expired historial documents and books, that are freely available on the web. I'd recommend reading Bleak House by paralegal Charles Dickens, how the corrupt legal system of London ate the estate in Chancery Court, where not even the lawyers nor judges had any idea what the case was about (other than collecting their legal fees).

Jurisdictionary arrives in a single DVD/CD box, which includes 4 CDs -- 2 audio, 1 video, 1 data with PDFs -- no DVDs, for viewing by computer only. At $257, it cost about 1/4 what a paralegal certificate class would cost online, or about what lawyers are usually required to pay every year for CLE classes. Unlike mail-order paralegal "college" classes, that are merely a single book mailed in chapters after you take open-book tests with zero human interaction, Jurisdictionary includes 5 hours of video lectures with 2 hours of audio lectures and 15 "law school tutorials". It includes no written material, but you get immediate access to online text material. Jurisdictionary does appear to cost much less than George Gordon's School of Law for non-lawyers, which is an actual classroom/teacher seminar with audio CDs to take home. In Tennessee, a paralegal college course would cost several $1,000s of dollars, including the requirement of passing a calculus class and type 500 words a minute, but would provide zero education in courtroom procedure for pro se litigants.

The National Motorists Association provides detailed legal info on winning in traffic court, using self-help law books written by lawyers for non-lawyers from Nolo Press, along with police instruction manuals on use of radar/laser/vascar. When you join NMA, they will pay your speeding ticket if you lose a real trial in traffic court, if you got the ticket after buying annual membership. NMA will also pay you up to $5,000 to fight a redlight camera ticket in the appellate courts. NMA are those nice people who got the 55 mph national speed limit repealed. NMA rents a Ticket Defense Kit for $30 to $50, or buy all the books for $195 to $215.

It appears that both Jurisdictionary and NMA schools are required to win in traffic court. NMA being the most important specific info, with Jurisdictionary being a follow up advanced course on generic courtroom procedure. Nolo Press does offer books on criminal defense, but are written for folks who hire a lawyer. Westlaw and LexisNexis sell professional criminal defense books for lawyers specific to a state or federal jurisdiction, that every pro se should buy before trial in traffic court, or when they hire a lawyer to reduce fear of the unknown and help win the case.

Of course, the easiest way to beat a redlight/radar camera ticket is to throw it in the trash and ignore it, for lack of personal service of process, as required for all civil lawsuits. This fact of law is 100% censored by the patholigical liars in the media mafiya, who have billions of dollars in illegal contractors with Big Brother for propaganda services, which is why Newsweek sold for $1. I don't know yet if Jurisdictionary covers that.

"It is extremely easy to beat this type of ticket in court. Your easiest defense is to simply throw the ticket away. If it does not come with a return receipt that requires a signature, there is no proof that you actually got the ticket."
-Norman G. Fernandez, attorney, free ebook How to Beat a Speeding Ticket - Photo RADAR

"Your photo radar defense: Ignoring The Letter. When you receive a general post letter advising you of your photo radar citation, you have the option of just ignoring it. All states have guidelines on how the citation must be served. In effect, your payment or appearance at the courthouse is your acceptance of service. By not responding to the letter, you are refusing acceptance of service. In addition, none of the departments are making personal service to anyone that lists a PO Box as their mailing address on their vehicle registrations."
-Lt "Radar" Roy Reyer, Maricopa County Sheriff Office, Phoenix, Arizona, RadarBusters.com, Your Photo Radar Defense

75% of AZ Drivers Refuse to Pay Photo Traffic Tickets

85% of TX Drivers Refuse to Pay Photo Traffic Tickets

Cops confess to shooting redlight camera in Knoxville TN

Cop Radar Roy tests radar detectors and police radar, listing which detectors work and which are crap (Cobra, Rocky Mountain Radar). Walmart and Best Buy sell Cobra crap. Local auto parts stores sell the good ones that warn of "POP" instant-on Ka band by THP, and are affordable under $100 (Whistler).

Jurisdictionary does deny the validity of various "patriot" legal arguments, such as the gold fringe on a US flag indicating martial law admiralty jurisdiction as defined by US Code. Never mind that federal traffic court does admit in court orders that driving in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park is "admiralty jurisdiction", to go with its gold-fringe flag. Don't know yet what Jurisdictionary says about the constitutionally guaranteed right to travel without an internal passport tax. Never mind that 75% of judges lack a license to practice law (a crime under TN Code), so how do they require a license to drive?

Pastor Rick Strawcutter is a certified paralegal and law school student who has won pro se trials and appeals in traffic court, who teaches his skills by videotape and mail order court documents. Or he was until MSNBC "CAPTURED" featured him as the next preacher to be massacred by the Police State. Strawcutter first pointed out what Jurisdictionary now says, that right or wrong, Rules of Procedure and Rules of Evidence now trump the constitutions, laws and facts in every court, so learn those Rules if you want to win. This good advice is the opposite of the propaganda the sheeple see on Judge Judy TeeVee, where ignorance of the Rules and groveling to a screaming judge is how whiners allegedly become winners -- which pays that Judas jew judge $30-million per year to brainwash the masses to lose in traffic court.



There's a difference between an unskilled pro se losing an appeal of a patriot argument, and a skilled law firm spending $100,000 to make a professional "patriot" argument in the appellate courts, which apparently has never been attempted in US history. I've personally paid $170,000 to a lawyer to win $250,000 in the federal court of appeals, and they still messed up the appeal.

It's odd and disappointing that Jurisdictionary fails to mention traffic court. What's the reason for that? Jurisdictionary includes the typical anti-semitic rants made by anti-semitic jews that Islam is evil and destroying USA. Never mind that all dictionaries define Semite as Arab or Christian, not a Eurotrash jew living in USA with zero DNA from ancient Judah. Never mind that CIA employee Usama Bin Laden denied involvement on 17 Sept 2001, and the Khazar jew banksters funded the US Govt's attack against USA on 9/11/2001, and stole $30-trillion from an impotent Congress via the Bankster Bailout Bills. It's the jews who destroyed the US judicial system and Christianity via their Satanic Masonic mafiya, and overthrew USA by numerous coups d'etat, as Tennessee president General Andrew Jackson put on his tombstone. It's the jews who banned rebuilding the Christian church destroyed at Ground Zero on 9/11/2001. It's the pedophile jewish rabbis who suck penis of little babies during circumcison rituals, then kill them for "religious freedom".

Will Jurisdictionary get up to speed with patriot "mythology", history and the Facts of Life, or will it be just another disinfo diversion to siphon patriot dollars to the Jew World Odor?

"COP.
2. to steal; filch. 3. to buy (narcotics). 4. cop out, a. to avoid one's responsibility, the fulfillment of a promise, etc.; renege; back out. 5. cop a plea, a. to plead guilty or confess in return for receiving a lighter sentence. b. to plead guilty to a lesser charge; plea-bargain." Random House Unabridged Dictionary.

Cops get $200,000 salary, city files for bankruptcy in federal bankruptcy court to avoid paying police union contracts

Tennessee Auditors Arrive, 48 Blount Sheriff cars missing - "The state auditor arrived in the County a few weeks ago. The auditor was able to find only 239 vehicles. What happened to the other 48 vehicles? But the Sheriff wants the taxpayers to support a tax increase, so that he can have even more money to spend next year. Does this make sense to you?"

"I’ll burn your house down, set your dog on fire and there won’t be a member of your family left, do you understand me? I won’t hire it done, I will do it myself! Do you understand me?”
-Blount County TN sheriff James Berrong, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, Nuchols v. Berrong, No. 04-5645, July 11, 2005

THE DRAGONATER WINS IN TRAFFIC COURT AT DEALS GAP, RAISES SPEED LIMIT TO 65 MPH ON THE DRAGON - NOLLE PROSEQUI BY BLOUNT COUNTY ATTORNEY GENERAL. NO TESTIMONY, HEARING NOR TRIAL WHATSOEVER. 60 MPH SPEEDING TICKET DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, COSTS PAID BY THE STATE, IN BLOUNT COUNTY GENERAL SESSIONS COURT WITH JUDGE BREWER. THP TROOPER RANDALL HUCKEBY ADMITTED ON VIDEOTAPE DURING TRAFFIC STOP THAT ALL SPEEDING TICKETS NORTHBOUND ON US129 AT MILE MARKER 0.5 ARE FEDERAL JURISDICTION, NOT STATE JURISDICTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). HUCKEBY WAS ALSO CAUGHT ON VIDEO SPEEDING AT 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON, WITHOUT THE MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND SIREN REQUIRED FOR IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). TDOT ADMITTED IN WRITING THAT THE MANDATORY TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SURVEY SPEED AUDIT WAS NEVER PERFORMED, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, THUS THE POSTED 30 MPH SPEED LIMIT ON THE DRAGON REVERTS TO THE DEFAULT 65 MPH IN TN CODE. THE DRAGONATER ALSO MADE VIDEO OF TROOPER HUCKEBY SPEEDING UP TO 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON IN A 30 MPH ZONE, WITHOUT MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS NOR SIREN, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, AND PERJURY IN HIS PERSONNEL FILE, WHICH SHOWED HIS $100,000+ SALARY. 2007 TDOT SAFETY AUDIT REPORT CONFESSED THAT THP'S JOB IS TO BAN ALL COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES ON THE DRAGON, SO THP TICKETS INCREASED 11,400% IN BLOUNT COUNTY. THP'S STALKER RADAR OPERATOR MANUAL CONFESSED THAT RADAR CANNOT MEASURE THE SPEED OF VEHICLES WITHIN 18 MPH OF ACTUAL SPEED. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FULL EVIDENCE FILE. UPDATE 7 MARCH 2011

Secret tape of cops' illegal ticket quota

Tennessee Highway Patrol busted for illegal ticket quotas

Click to play audio: NYPD Secret Tape Has Police Pressing Ticket Quotas

New York Times
9 Sept 2010

For nearly every New Yorker who has received a summons in the city — caught at a checkpoint monitoring seat-belt use, or approached by a small army of police officers descending on illegally parked cars — quotas are a maddening fact of life.

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 hourlong recording, which a lawyer provided this week to The New York Times, was made by a police supervisor during a meeting in April of supervisors from the 81st Precinct.

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.

The Police Department’s chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne, did not respond Thursday to three e-mails and three phone calls requesting comments on the tape. He was sent extensive excerpts from the recording.

On the tape, a police captain, Alex Perez, can be heard warning his top commanders that their officers must start writing more summonses or face consequences. Captain Perez offered a precise number and suggested a method. He said that officers on a particular shift should write — as a group — 20 summonses a week: five each for double-parking, parking at a bus stop, driving without a seat belt and driving while using a cellphone.

“You, as bosses, have to demand this and have to count it,” Captain Perez said, citing pressure from top police officials. At another point, Captain Perez emphasized his willingness to punish officers who do not meet the targets, saying, “I really don’t have a problem firing people.”

The recording is the latest in a series of audiotapes from the precinct that have raised concerns among community leaders and residents of the neighborhoods it covers, Brownsville and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Those Brooklyn residents contend that the tapes show a department fixated on the number of summonses and low-level arrests, and that the result is a pattern of harassment.

Critics say this is the flip side of CompStat, the Police Department analysis system that has been credited with bringing down major crimes but faulted as creating a numbers-driven culture.

Police officials have long denied the existence of a quota system, but they add that they do have “performance goals” they expect officers to meet.

A previous set of recordings of station-house roll calls was made in 2008 and 2009 by Patrol Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who has filed a lawsuit against the department claiming retaliation after he reported accusations to the Internal Affairs Bureau.

Officer Schoolcraft accused supervisors in the precinct of manipulating crime statistics and enforcing ticket and arrest quotas, which are a violation of state labor law.

The accusations are at the center of a broad internal investigation of how the precinct recorded crime statistics. Amid the inquiry, Deputy Inspector Steven Mauriello, who had been the commander at the 81st Precinct, was transferred in July to a transit district in the Bronx.

The latest recording was made on April 1, as the internal inquiry was under way, and after some of Officer Schoolcraft’s allegations had become public in The Daily News and The New York Post.

Inspector Mauriello invoked Officer Schoolcraft’s name at the April 1 meeting, as he warned precinct leaders about “rats coming out of here wearing tape recorders.”

The person who made the recording gave it this week to Officer Schoolcraft’s lawyer, Jon L. Norinsberg, in an effort to show that Officer Schoolcraft, who has been suspended from the force, was not alone.

“He wanted to do anything in his power to support Schoolcraft, and I think this is his way of corroborating Schoolcraft’s allegations,” said Mr. Norinsberg, who said the new recordings would be used as evidence in his case. “It is evidence the quota system is ongoing. Subsequent to the public revelations that have taken place, it’s business as usual in the N.Y.P.D.”

At one point in the new tapes, Inspector Mauriello introduced Captain Perez, who the supervisor said was second in command, as someone who “wants his summonses.”

For nearly every New Yorker who has received a summons in the city — caught at a checkpoint monitoring seat-belt use, or approached by a small army of police officers descending on illegally parked cars — quotas are a maddening fact of life.

The Police Department’s chief spokesman, Paul J. Browne, did not respond Thursday to three e-mails and three phone calls requesting comments on the tape. He was sent extensive excerpts from the recording.

On the tape, a police captain, Alex Perez, can be heard warning his top commanders that their officers must start writing more summonses or face consequences. Captain Perez offered a precise number and suggested a method. He said that officers on a particular shift should write — as a group — 20 summonses a week: five each for double-parking, parking at a bus stop, driving without a seat belt and driving while using a cellphone.

“You, as bosses, have to demand this and have to count it,” Captain Perez said, citing pressure from top police officials. At another point, Captain Perez emphasized his willingness to punish officers who do not meet the targets, saying, “I really don’t have a problem firing people.”

The recording is the latest in a series of audiotapes from the precinct that have raised concerns among community leaders and residents of the neighborhoods it covers, Brownsville and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Those Brooklyn residents contend that the tapes show a department fixated on the number of summonses and low-level arrests, and that the result is a pattern of harassment.

Critics say this is the flip side of CompStat, the Police Department analysis system that has been credited with bringing down major crimes but faulted as creating a numbers-driven culture.

Police officials have long denied the existence of a quota system, but they add that they do have “performance goals” they expect officers to meet.

A previous set of recordings of station-house roll calls was made in 2008 and 2009 by Patrol Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who has filed a lawsuit against the department claiming retaliation after he reported accusations to the Internal Affairs Bureau.

Officer Schoolcraft accused supervisors in the precinct of manipulating crime statistics and enforcing ticket and arrest quotas, which are a violation of state labor law.

The accusations are at the center of a broad internal investigation of how the precinct recorded crime statistics. Amid the inquiry, Deputy Inspector Steven Mauriello, who had been the commander at the 81st Precinct, was transferred in July to a transit district in the Bronx.

The latest recording was made on April 1, as the internal inquiry was under way, and after some of Officer Schoolcraft’s allegations had become public in The Daily News and The New York Post.

Inspector Mauriello invoked Officer Schoolcraft’s name at the April 1 meeting, as he warned precinct leaders about “rats coming out of here wearing tape recorders.”

The person who made the recording gave it this week to Officer Schoolcraft’s lawyer, Jon L. Norinsberg, in an effort to show that Officer Schoolcraft, who has been suspended from the force, was not alone.

“He wanted to do anything in his power to support Schoolcraft, and I think this is his way of corroborating Schoolcraft’s allegations,” said Mr. Norinsberg, who said the new recordings would be used as evidence in his case. “It is evidence the quota system is ongoing. Subsequent to the public revelations that have taken place, it’s business as usual in the N.Y.P.D.”

At one point in the new tapes, Inspector Mauriello introduced Captain Perez, who the supervisor said was second in command, as someone who “wants his summonses.”

“They’re counting seat belts and cellphones; they’re counting double parkers and bus stops,” Captain Perez said, referring to types of low-level summonses typically tracked by the department’s TrafficStat program. “If day tours contributed with five seat belts and five cellphones a week, five double-parkers and five bus stops a week, O.K.

“Your goal is five in each of these categories, not a difficult task to accomplish on Monday,” he added. “If it’s not accomplished by Monday, you’ve got to follow up with it on Tuesday. But there’s no reason it can’t be done by Thursday. So whatever I get by Friday, Saturday, Sunday is gravy. I’m not looking to break records here, but there is no reason we should be losing this number by 30 a week.”

Losing by 30 a week refers to a decline in the activity as reflected in departmental CompStat reports, which tally the weekly summons totals and the year-to-date totals for every command, said the person who made the recording. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and of risking his standing with people in the department.

Asked if the conversations were evidence of a quota, he said, “Absolutely,” adding that he had seen evidence of it in several boroughs.

He added that his concerns about the precinct’s integrity led him to begin recording meetings, well before he had ever met Officer Schoolcraft.

Roy T. Richter, the president of the Captains Endowment Association, said he did not believe that what Captain Perez, a member of his union, said “articulates a quota.”

From several references in the new recording, and in a separate recording made after April 1 and given to Officer Schoolcraft’s lawyer, it is clear that Inspector Mauriello and other supervisors were out to push underproducing officers — and punish them if they did not deliver.

“What I plan on doing — three cops are getting bounced to midnights, and three midnight cops are getting bounced to day tours,” Captain Perez said in the April 1 meeting.

“I don’t care about people’s families, if they don’t want to do their job,” he said. “Their paycheck is taking care of their family. If they don’t realize that, they’re going to change their tour; they’re going to start being productive if they want a tour that works for their family.”

He explained how punishment for failure would proceed.

“After I bounce you to a different platoon for inactivity, the next thing is to put you on paper, start rating you below standards and look to fire you,” Captain Perez said on the tape.

“I really don’t have a problem firing people,” he continued. “I don’t need to carry you. So that’s the attitude that you’ve got to sell to the cops.”

At one point in the second recording, made after the tapes by Officer Schoolcraft were put online in May by The Village Voice, Inspector Mauriello told supervisors to get officers out of squad cars and onto the streets.

People in the community “think cops are on the take,” Inspector Mauriello said. “I know it ain’t true, but that’s what they say: ‘Man, I need help. I got drug dealers in front of my house, and they’re in their car and they’re not getting out, not moving them.’ ”

He also told supervisors not to emphasize specific numbers, even while pressing their officers for more activity. And at one point, he made clear the pressure he felt from his bosses.

“I’m going to get beat up,” Inspector Mauriello said. “Everybody took a shot at me at CompStat, like a piñata last time, so I’m expecting that again.”

Because of an editing error, an article and a headline on Friday about a Brooklyn police precinct that appeared to be using quotas for summonses described incorrectly the number that officers were expected to write each week. In a recording of a meeting at the precinct, supervisors said that officers on a particular shift should write — as a group — 20 summonses a week; they did not say that each individual officer should write 20 a week. An article about the police’s response to the accusations is on Page A15.

Dragonator Comment: But no quota for the arrest of the US Govt and NYC Govt leaders who murdered dozens of NYPD cops and perped the terrorist massacres in NY City on 11 September 2001.

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Tennessee Highway Patrol Ticket Quota Uncovered

By The Newspaper on July 10, 2009

Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) troopers are punished for failing to issue a specific number of speeding tickets in at least one part of the state.

Attorney Fletcher Long provided WTVF-TV with a copy of a memo THP Sergeant Clifford M. Babits posted on the wall (PDF) of the Troop C station in Robertson County.

”I can no longer justify fives on evaluations for troopers not producing activity,” Babits wrote. “I require three things. 1. Answer the radio, 2. Work your crashes, and 3. WRITE TICKETS. I take some of the blame for not properly motivating ya’ll in the area of activity. Overall activity last year (2008) was well below the district average… Because activity plays such a high part of an everyday road trooper’s requirement, it is going to weigh heavy on yearly evaluation scores.”

These scores, with ‘five’ being the highest rating, are key to winning promotions, extra pay and the most desirable types of assignments. According to the memo, scoring is based solely on the number of tickets issued, although other factors such as routinely failing to follow orders can result in a lowered score. Babits set six hundred tickets a year, or three tickets per day, as the bare minimum.

“Let me stress I am not putting a quota on anyone,” Babits wrote. “I don’t care if a trooper writes below the 600 mark, it is his or her evaluation score, not mine. If a trooper turns in 600 citations per year, his or her overall evaluation will not be above the average score of three… I must be able to justify giving a trooper a five. Low activity is a killer.”

It takes 800 citations per year, or four tickets per day, to earn the top score. A rating of four is earned by writing 700 tickets per year or 3.5 per day. Those who fail toexceed the average score of three are punished by not being allowed to earn time-and-a-half pay on overtime assignments.

“Effective immediately, a trooper that does not produce above average activity (17.5 tickets per week) will not be able to work grant overtime in my county,” Babits wrote.

Tennessee Highway Patrol officials deny any quota exists. Many state police forces use the average number of tickets written by troops or stations to encourage a steady year-on-year increase in the number of speeding tickets issued.

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THP Official Answers Ticket Quota Questions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - NewsChannel5 Investigates confronted Tennessee Highway Patrol Colonel Mike Walker about a controversial memo and whether troopers target drivers with expensive tickets just to make a quota.

Maggie Duncan with the Tennessee Police Chiefs Association, of which the THP is a member, said putting such a policy to paper is unheard of.

"It's extremely bad policy and it's unprofessional," said Duncan.

Attorney Fletcher Long said this THP memo proved otherwise.

"They've always maintained they don't have a quota," said Long. "It's appalling - absolutely appalling."

Long had argued in court on behalf of clients that ticket quotas do exist, but could not prove it. He believed this memo will give them what he needs to challenge traffic tickets on grounds they were written only to meet a quota.

"They are only supposed to pull motorists over who violate the law - not the motorist they have to have because it's the end of the shift and they haven't met their 600 monthly tickets yet," said Long.

THP Col. Mike Walker said troopers do not write tickets to satisfy a quota in response to Sgt. Babit's memo.

"We don't have quotas. We don't assign numbers to troopers," said Walker. "That's a Sergeant trying to put something down for the troopers that he's going to look at."

Walker objected to the memo, but said it was not evidence of a secret quota system in the THP.

He said Babit, who remains on the job, acted alone.

"I don't know why he did it. I couldn't explain it - you'd have to ask him," said Walker.

Babit declined to talk on camera. By phone he admitted to writing the memo and said: "I only did what I was told. I sent what I wrote up the chain of command for approval. They did and told me to distribute it."

Col. Walker disputed Babit's comment.

"This came from him. It did not come from the district captain or anybody above that level," said Walker.

In 2001 Robertson County ranked 4th in the state with 15,673 tickets written and by 2007 - that rank had slipped to 17th with fewer than half that total, a big drop in traffic ticket revenues.

In the past, state lawmakers have considered legislation to make ticket quotas illegal. It's possible the issue will come up again next session.

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What Really Motivates The Highway Patrol?

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. - A memo seems to spell out a ticket quota policy for the Tennessee Highway Patrol. NewsChannel5 Investigates found proof that quotas do exist in Middle Tennessee.

Law enforcement supervisors at every level said quotas are bad policy and they insist quotas do not exist.

A memo was posted at the THP headquarters in Springfield for all troopers to see and the message in black and white seems crystal clear - write more tickets or else.

Sgt. Cliff Babits name is on the memo posted this past February. Troopers are warned the number of tickets written will influence their evaluations and that ‘low activity is a killer.'

The author writes, ‘Let me stress I am not putting a quota on anyone.' But on the very next page there's a three to five point scoring system.

Troopers are rewarded for a higher score, 600 citations per year = 60 tickets per month. This is average and average is 3.

Then 700 citations per year = 70 tickets per month. This is slightly above average and that could get a trooper a 4.

Finally, 800 citations per year = 80 tickets per month. This along with excelling in your other duties can justify a 5.

Attorney Fletcher Long obtained a copy of the memo from an angry client. He's long argued in court that quotas exist with no success, but now he has proof.

"It's appalling. Absolutely appalling," said Long. "It's just very clear here that's the quota system."

Perhaps most disturbing to those who've seen the memo - this paragraph: ‘Effective immediately, a trooper that does not produce above average activity (17.5 tickets per week) will not be able to work grant overtime in my county. If a trooper doesn't earn it, he or she will not get it!'

So was THP sergeant Cliff Babits pressured by higher-ups to produce more tickets? If so - how widespread is the quota policy?

NewsChannel5 Investigates put those questions to Col. Mike Walker, head of the state highway patrol; you'll be surprised to hear what Babits has to say about the memo. That part of the story Tuesday at 10 p.m.

Original PDF backup of THP memo

See also:

Tennessee Highway Patrol busted for illegal ticket quotas

KPD leaks illegal quota memos in Knoxville TN

The Dragonator walks the talk, how to file felony charges against your military commanders, then get offered a job working for Secretary of War Dick Cheney at the Pentagon.

Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1950, police state goes berserk arresting all motorists as career criminals

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Ex-officers seek to stop traffic grants

By Daniel Borunda
EL PASO TIMES
11/01/2011

Five former El Paso police officers have filed a request for an injunction against city officials, alleging police have an illegal quota system for traffic tickets.

The ex-officers claim they were forced to resign, but City Manager Joyce Wilson said the officers resigned when faced with termination linked to allegations of falsified time sheets.

The resignations come after an investigation began in late summer regarding the misappropriation of overtime linked to the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program, or STEP, grant. The investigation has since expanded beyond traffic grants.

A week ago, Lt. Alfred Lowe, head of the Crimes Against Persons Unit, was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into overtime regarding a state grant paying for anti-gang operations.

The petition for an injunction was filed last week in the 34th District Court and seeks to stop the El Paso Police Department from using state traffic enforcement grants and alleges that a quota system is being used.

A hearing date is pending on the petition filed by ex-officers Luis Acosta, Ana Reza, Jorge Arellano, Michael Arzaga and Luis Alonzo Ortiz against Police Chief Greg Allen, Wilson and Mayor John Cook.

Each officer was with the department for more than 10 years until their resignations in late August and September. They are represented by lawyers Stuart Leeds and Theresa Caballero.

Leeds and Caballero provided the El Paso Times with a copy of an internal police email where a traffic sergeant complains to officers that not enough citations are being issued as part of a Click-It-or-Ticket seat-belt enforcement grant.

The May 26 email by Sgt. Jack Matthews of the Traffic Division stated "the performance standard set forth in the grant is a minimum of three seat-belt violations per hour of work per officer. If you think that you cannot meet this goal during your five-hour shift, then do not work the grant ... those that do not produce what is required will not be considered to work any traffic-related grants in the future."

Matthews was a past grant administrator, according to city documents, and retired Aug. 20, about the time the grants investigation was under way. Matthews has not been accused of wrongdoing.

Leeds said the email is proof that a quota system, though using a different name, is used by the Police Department in violation of state law.

"This proves this is all about money," Leeds said. "It is not about law enforcement and criminal justice. The people of El Paso are being hunted" for traffic citations.

Police and city officials denied the allegations. Police officials have said performance standards are not a quota system.

"These attorneys are representing their clients who resigned voluntarily in lieu of termination," Wilson said in a statement.

"The El Paso Police Department does not have a quota system and the issue at hand has nothing to do with quotas -- it has to do with falsifying time records. The lawsuit is without merit and our legal team is preparing a response."

Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com; 546-6102.

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Here We Go Again…. “Yes, We Have No Quotas”

by Lawrence Taylor attorney at law

I’ve mentioned in the past that police agencies across the country use DUI arrest quotas — and almost uniformly deny the practice. See, for example, DUI Quotas, "Yes, We Have No DUI Quotas" and "Inside Edition" Documents DUI Quotas Across U.S..

The latest example of this supposedly non-existent practice:

Drunk-Driving Quota Case May Lead to Similar Efforts Elsewhere

Baltimore, MD. Jan. 6 – Even as prosecutors weigh an appeal of a Howard County judge’s decision to throw out drunken-driving charges and rule that they were tied to illegal citation quotas, defense lawyers are considering whether the same defense might apply to past or current cases.

District Court Judge Sue-Ellen Hantman’s ruling in a case against an Ellicott City woman has raised questions on both sides — as well as eyebrows around the legal community…

Hantman said the charges against Katie Majorie Quackenbush, 22, were linked to an illegal quota — a ruling based on a memorandum that police have said was intended to describe the requirements of a federal grant that paid overtime for officers to target drunken and aggressive drivers through "saturation patrols."

"I find any evidence in this case to be inadmissible," she said, according to a recording of her Thursday ruling, and that ended the prosecution. Nevertheless, the judge indicated that "I don’t think saturation patrols are in and of themselves illegal, merely the quotas."…

The police chief said a memo to officers that called for two to four citations per hour contained, “in retrospect, not the best wording,” and conceded that he “could see how it could be misinterpreted.” He said the department does not use quotas and had revised the memo.

The memo also told the officers on the drunken-driving and aggressive-driving saturation patrols that they usually produce “at or above these amounts.”

The federal funds come from the National Traffic Safety Administration to the state, according to Buel Young, a spokesman for the state Motor Vehicle Administration. Jurisdictions can apply for them.

So the police chief insists that "the department does not use quotas"…and that the memo was just "perhaps not the best wording"? Hmmmm…..it’s hard to see how "it could be misinterpreted": the departmental order that cops have to produce "two to four citations per hour" sounds pretty clear to me.

Interesting that the federal grant appears to have required police agencies to use quotas….

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COP.
2. to steal; filch. 3. to buy (narcotics). 4. cop out, a. to avoid one's responsibility, the fulfillment of a promise, etc.; renege; back out. 5. cop a plea, a. to plead guilty or confess in return for receiving a lighter sentence. b. to plead guilty to a lesser charge; plea-bargain.
-Random House Unabridged Dictionary.

THE DRAGONATER WINS IN TRAFFIC COURT AT DEALS GAP, RAISES SPEED LIMIT TO 65 MPH ON THE DRAGON - NOLLE PROSEQUI BY BLOUNT COUNTY ATTORNEY GENERAL. NO TESTIMONY, HEARING NOR TRIAL WHATSOEVER. 60 MPH SPEEDING TICKET DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, COSTS PAID BY THE STATE, IN BLOUNT COUNTY GENERAL SESSIONS COURT WITH JUDGE BREWER. THP TROOPER RANDALL HUCKEBY ADMITTED ON VIDEOTAPE DURING TRAFFIC STOP THAT ALL SPEEDING TICKETS NORTHBOUND ON US129 AT MILE MARKER 0.5 ARE FEDERAL JURISDICTION, NOT STATE JURISDICTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). HUCKEBY WAS ALSO CAUGHT ON VIDEO SPEEDING AT 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON, WITHOUT THE MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND SIREN REQUIRED FOR IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). TDOT ADMITTED IN WRITING THAT THE MANDATORY TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SURVEY SPEED AUDIT WAS NEVER PERFORMED, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, THUS THE POSTED 30 MPH SPEED LIMIT ON THE DRAGON REVERTS TO THE DEFAULT 65 MPH IN TN CODE. THE DRAGONATER ALSO MADE VIDEO OF TROOPER HUCKEBY SPEEDING UP TO 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON IN A 30 MPH ZONE, WITHOUT MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS NOR SIREN, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, AND PERJURY IN HIS PERSONNEL FILE, WHICH SHOWED HIS $100,000+ SALARY. 2007 TDOT SAFETY AUDIT REPORT CONFESSED THAT THP'S JOB IS TO BAN ALL COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES ON THE DRAGON, SO THP TICKETS INCREASED 11,400% IN BLOUNT COUNTY. THP'S STALKER RADAR OPERATOR MANUAL CONFESSED THAT RADAR CANNOT MEASURE THE SPEED OF VEHICLES WITHIN 18 MPH OF ACTUAL SPEED. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FULL EVIDENCE FILE. UPDATE 7 MARCH 2011

My cousin's funeral

Jeff McWaters Memorial Ride on the 4th of July. Tire blowout on a Gold Wing on the Tellico Dragon off the Cherohala. Jeff's Harley led the funeral procession. RIP.

Turns out rear tires on cruisers and tourers are near or over the weight limit with 2 up, due to design defect. Check your pressures every ride -- 2-up requires max pressure on every ride, readjusted for every temperature change. Go to the Dark Side if necessary. Only cops are allowed run-flat tires...

Jeff's death was during the closure of US129 at Deals Gap. Would he still be alive if THP hadn't closed the Dragon under martial law?

Cops Catch and Release Program for bike thieves at Deals Gap

SlayerHater news scoop identifies nameless SlayerRaiders

UPDATE: Thief's name is Ben Davidson from Illinois, land of Al Capone?

Sarah Palin says, Don't fuck with East TN Riders:



Cops arrest bike thief at Deals Gap, let him go, thief returns to Gap SAME DAY...

Arrest:

easttnriders.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35542&page=63

Catch and Release:

easttnriders.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35542&page=64

UT student or car stolen from UT student? Fraternity prank or Pirate of the Scarabbean?

Just like the Feds Catch and Release program for 50-million illegal aliens, including one in the White House.

Was he "released" without charges, or released on bail?

Did the bike owner make a valid citizen's arrest for felony attempted vehicle and clothing theft valued at more than $500, and immediately sign an arrest warrant in the presence of a judge, while police booked the suspect?

Or did the cop make a valid arrest for a felony not committed in his presence, of attempted vehicle and clothing theft valued at more than $500, then immediately sign the arrest warrant in the presence of a judge while booking the suspect?

Or did the cop make an illegal arrest for a misdemeaner not committed in his presence, for attempted theft of clothing and "joyriding", resulting in charges dismissed by a judge without notifying the victim?

Under TN Code, no cop is allowed to make an arrest for a misdemeaner not committed in the cop's presence, except allegedly for domestic assault (when the victim is often arrested or killed by police).

This is the fatal flaw with Concealed Carry classes in Tennessee, no truth on how or when to make a valid citizens arrest.

NC does have a reciprocity contract for TN handgun carry permits.



Note that cops run the cartheft rackets with towtruckers, with their world HQ in East TN. Police informants have immunity from prosecution for every crime. Informants are routinely paid by police to do crimes against the public, which scares the sheeple to demand a police state, and force businesses to pay police "protection" rackets for off-duty cops wearing uniforms and driving govt police cars as private security (ie impersonating police officers). Undercover cops and undercover underage police cadets routinely commit crimes against the public using fake ID, then prosecute the crime victims (beer board prosecutions profit $10,000 a pop).

Are these bike theives working for police, with immunity from prosecution? Funny how ETR's Deputy JD caught the previous bike thief at Deals Gap, in the middle of the night, when no cops are there... That thief was never named either.

Two Cops Arrested for Breaking Into Cars

At least the cops were busy arresting safe drivers and suing fribvolous traffic tickets against them all day on the Dragon. Some dare call that thieving.



THE DRAGONATER WINS IN TRAFFIC COURT AT DEALS GAP, RAISES SPEED LIMIT TO 65 MPH ON THE DRAGON - NOLLE PROSEQUI BY BLOUNT COUNTY ATTORNEY GENERAL. NO TESTIMONY, HEARING NOR TRIAL WHATSOEVER. 60 MPH SPEEDING TICKET DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, COSTS PAID BY THE STATE, IN BLOUNT COUNTY GENERAL SESSIONS COURT WITH JUDGE BREWER. THP TROOPER RANDALL HUCKEBY ADMITTED ON VIDEOTAPE DURING TRAFFIC STOP THAT ALL SPEEDING TICKETS NORTHBOUND ON US129 AT MILE MARKER 0.5 ARE FEDERAL JURISDICTION, NOT STATE JURISDICTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). HUCKEBY WAS ALSO CAUGHT ON VIDEO SPEEDING AT 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON, WITHOUT THE MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND SIREN REQUIRED FOR IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). TDOT ADMITTED IN WRITING THAT THE MANDATORY TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SURVEY SPEED AUDIT WAS NEVER PERFORMED, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, THUS THE POSTED 30 MPH SPEED LIMIT ON THE DRAGON REVERTS TO THE DEFAULT 65 MPH IN TN CODE. THE DRAGONATER ALSO MADE VIDEO OF TROOPER HUCKEBY SPEEDING UP TO 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON IN A 30 MPH ZONE, WITHOUT MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS NOR SIREN, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, AND PERJURY IN HIS PERSONNEL FILE, WHICH SHOWED HIS $100,000+ SALARY. 2007 TDOT SAFETY AUDIT REPORT CONFESSED THAT THP'S JOB IS TO BAN ALL COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES ON THE DRAGON, SO THP TICKETS INCREASED 11,400% IN BLOUNT COUNTY. THP'S STALKER RADAR OPERATOR MANUAL CONFESSED THAT RADAR CANNOT MEASURE THE SPEED OF VEHICLES WITHIN 18 MPH OF ACTUAL SPEED. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FULL EVIDENCE FILE. UPDATE 7 MARCH 2011

Biker chick run over by RV on the Dragon at TN Tree of Shame

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Intersection of 129 and 72 at Motorcycle Pitstop, Punkin Center BBQ Motel and Tennessee Tree of Shame

UPDATE: Punkin Center store's security camera recorded the actual crash. "Bike was going no more than 20 mph at time of impact." She would've had no injury except the RV kept driving after impact, actually driving the tires over her head, splitting the full-face helmet.

ZX14 tourist from Indiana got hit by an RV then run over. May lose her leg.

Begs the question, how long was the "response" by Rural Metro Taxi Service?

In Knox County RM has a 10 minute limit or is fined by the county. In Blount County response time is unlimited, with 4 hours common on the Dragon, leading to many unnecessary deaths. Rural Metro is a trillion-dollar private company run for the profit of its European shareholders. RM charges $5,000 for a 5-minute taxi ride to Lifestar, which charges $19,000 for a $4,000 air taxi.

BTW cops carry no first responder kit and provide no first aid.

Did cops even write a ticket for the RV driver who turned in front of an approaching bike? Everybody knows bikes are always at fault, which is why THP has increased biker tickets 11,400% on the Dragon, with immunity to truckers. Note that THP always says sportbikes drive at 60 mph, without evidence.

Was she wearing jeans or kevlar jeans or armored riding pants? Mesh jacket may have protected her upper body but perhaps no hard spine protection, hence the broken back.

Old RV driver had no idea he was in a crash, and kept on driving, dragging the biker under the trailer hitch... (NEED KEVLAR JEANS)

http://www.easttnriders.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36877&page=2

http://www.sportbikechix.com/index.php?topic=2482.0

Note that the most dangerous part of any crash is going to hospital. Doctors are leading cause of death in USA, while riding a bike is one of the safest things you could ever do.

"The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. Using Leape's 1997 medical and drug error rate would add another 216,000 deaths, for a total of 999,936 deaths annually. Our estimated 10-year total of 7.8 million iatrogenic* deaths is more than all the casualties from all the wars fought by the US throughout its entire history. Our considerably higher figure is equivalent to six jumbo jets are falling out of the sky each day."
—Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; Dorothy Smith, PhD, Death by Medicine, March 2004 (plus 1-Million annual aborticides in USA)

"The median pre-crash speed was 29.8 mph, and the median crash speed was 21.5 mph, and the one-in-a-thousand crash speed is approximately 86 mph. Motorcycle riders in these accidents showed significant collision avoidance problems. Most riders would overbrake and skid the rear wheel, and underbrake the front wheel greatly reducing collision avoidance deceleration. The ability to countersteer and swerve was essentially absent."
-Dr Harry Hurt PhD, USDOT Hurt Report (Dr Hurt never crashed a bike then was murdered by medical doctors)

Truth in Motorcycle Crash Statistics

Countersteering stickers by The Dragonator

THE DRAGONATER WINS IN TRAFFIC COURT AT DEALS GAP, RAISES SPEED LIMIT TO 65 MPH ON THE DRAGON - NOLLE PROSEQUI BY BLOUNT COUNTY ATTORNEY GENERAL. NO TESTIMONY, HEARING NOR TRIAL WHATSOEVER. 60 MPH SPEEDING TICKET DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, COSTS PAID BY THE STATE, IN BLOUNT COUNTY GENERAL SESSIONS COURT WITH JUDGE BREWER. THP TROOPER RANDALL HUCKEBY ADMITTED ON VIDEOTAPE DURING TRAFFIC STOP THAT ALL SPEEDING TICKETS NORTHBOUND ON US129 AT MILE MARKER 0.5 ARE FEDERAL JURISDICTION, NOT STATE JURISDICTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). HUCKEBY WAS ALSO CAUGHT ON VIDEO SPEEDING AT 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON, WITHOUT THE MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND SIREN REQUIRED FOR IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). TDOT ADMITTED IN WRITING THAT THE MANDATORY TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SURVEY SPEED AUDIT WAS NEVER PERFORMED, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, THUS THE POSTED 30 MPH SPEED LIMIT ON THE DRAGON REVERTS TO THE DEFAULT 65 MPH IN TN CODE. THE DRAGONATER ALSO MADE VIDEO OF TROOPER HUCKEBY SPEEDING UP TO 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON IN A 30 MPH ZONE, WITHOUT MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS NOR SIREN, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, AND PERJURY IN HIS PERSONNEL FILE, WHICH SHOWED HIS $100,000+ SALARY. 2007 TDOT SAFETY AUDIT REPORT CONFESSED THAT THP'S JOB IS TO BAN ALL COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES ON THE DRAGON, SO THP TICKETS INCREASED 11,400% IN BLOUNT COUNTY. THP'S STALKER RADAR OPERATOR MANUAL CONFESSED THAT RADAR CANNOT MEASURE THE SPEED OF VEHICLES WITHIN 18 MPH OF ACTUAL SPEED. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FULL EVIDENCE FILE. UPDATE 7 MARCH 2011

Police State checkpoint on the Dragon, biker tickets increase 11,400% at Deals Gap

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