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Incident Chesterfield Arrest Quotas 316-cv-00649-MHL-RCY
Date | Aug 02, 2016 |
Report # | Chesterfield Arrest Quotas 316-cv-00649-MHL-RCY |
Department | Chesterfield County Police |
Officers | Gary T. Bailey , Matthew R. Dunn , Russell M. Granderson , Sean D. Retter , Adam M. Moore |
Address | Richmond, VA |
Tags | Chesterfield Police | Chesterfield | Virginia Eastern District Court | Monell | Traffic Stops | Quotas | Virginia State Crime Commission | John Doe | Lauck | Novak | |
Incident Description
"....That “a former CCPD police officer revealed to the press that the CCPD was requiring officers to make two (2) to three (3) traffic stops per day and one (1) arrest per day” (SAC at para. 29) (emphasis added);
That “CCPD, with the insistence and oversight of Defendants Kelly and Dupuis, promulgated its [arrest quota] policy in a document titled ‘Chesterfield County Employee Development Program,’ which stated that officers ‘must maintain the shift average of traffic stops and that the shift ‘average was between two and three traffic stops’ per day, and, further, officers shall ‘maintain the expectation of one arrest per day’” (SAC at para. 31) (emphasis added);
That “the CCPD, through Defendant Kelly, confirmed at the time that they had no intention of terminating thhe use of Arrest Quotas. Instead, the CCPD continued to enforce the Arrest Quotas for their officers until long after Mr. Howell’s wrongful arrest....”
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COMPLAINT against A.M. Moore, Chesterfield County, Col. Thierry Dupuis, Police Officer John Does 1-5
COMPLAINT against A.M. Moore, Chesterfield County, Virginia, Col. Thierry G. Dupuis, and Police Officer John Does nos. 1-5. - Va. E. D.