By Victor Omondi

For close to a decade The North Brunswick police Department has been full of racially discriminatory practices that target black and Latino neighborhoods. They have been allowing officers to target these neighborhoods to fulfill ticket quotas with the claim that there was a financial reward to rack up numbers. Essentially they were more interested in filling u their pockets at the expense of people of color.

NBC News writes, “According to an investigation by NBC New York’s I-Team, officers targeted minority neighborhoods in order to fulfill ticket quotas, racking up more and more overtime pay with each ticket they wrote — an unofficial policy that was widely understood in the department, police say. They called the practice “hunting at the border,” referring to the border between North Brunswick and New Brunswick, and roads heavily trafficked by minorities. ”

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The more tickets the officers fulfilled, the more money they would receive in overtime pay. And this was their motivation according to Veteran police officer Mike Campbell.

One of the officers said that they would write u tickets for minor infractions, so as to fulfill quotas faster. This meant they would write tickets for petty things that didn’t count like “something hanging from the mirror.”

Another officer also stated, while talking to NBC New York, “They’re saying they’re going out hunting. You go to traffic court and you see the impact. Ninety percent of the people you see there are blacks and Latinos.”

Source: NJ Cops Purposely Targeted & Ticketed Blacks and Latinos To Meet Ticket Quotas