Ticket quotas are commonly defined as any establishment of a predetermined or specified number of traffic citations an officer must issue in a specified time.
[2] In many places, such as North Carolina, California, Texas, and Florida, traffic ticket quotas are specifically prohibited by law or illegal.
[6][7] In 2002, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a Division of Motor Vehicles quota system could be followed by officers "without breaking the law".
[10] Al O'Leary, a spokesman for the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Brooklyn, New York says: "Such quotas put the cops under pressure to write summonses when the violations don't exist ...
In 2009 Guusje ter Horst told Members of the States General of the Netherlands (parliament) that the justice ministry had agreed that the police should raise €831m through fines.