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A New York police officer has revealed that police is under pressure to meet quotas. NYPD Officer Adil Polanco says obsession with keeping crime stats down has gotten out of control. He claims precinct commanders pressure cops on the street to make more arrests, and give out more summonses, all to show HQ they have a tight grip on their neighborhoods.

"They have to meet a quota. One arrest and twenty summonses," said Polanco. In a recording, a precinct patrol supervisor appears to step up the pressure to write more and more summonses: "Next week, 25 and 1, 35 and 1, and until you decide to quit this job to go to work at a Pizza Hut, this is what you're going to be doing till then. Do you understand?"

"We are stopping kids walking upstairs to their house, stopping kids going to the store. In order to keep the quota," said Polanco. Not making the quotas forces officers to give out bogus summonses. "I'm not going to keep arresting innocent people, I'm not going to keep searching people for no reason, I'm not going to keep writing people for no reason, I'm tired of this," he said.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/investigators&id=7305356