troopers out of the hurst office had stop quotas of 10. i don't know if they still do or not though. i talked to a trooper out of victoria and he said the troops that are lazy have to have the stop quotas because his office didn't do that.
my last agency wanted 15 stops per 10 hour shift. only problem is i investigated hit and runs, worked all accidents, etc, and it's pretty hard to get 15 when you've got all the other stuff going on. if i was just out hammering traffic, i could get 15 stops before breakfast. in DFW, writing tickets is like shooting fish in a bucket. a friend of mine who works in traffic in bryan said their motor jocks were writing 1000 tickets per year. i was writing 300 tickets a month, and that doesn't include warnings. i guess it has a lot to do with the area though.
i'd go out on the big road and make 6-7 stops an hour. it took me 3 minutes per stop. i was up in the panhandle and the only other cars i saw on the roads were troopers, so i imagine just 5 stops per day is a real chore up there. one trooper i knew was fired for writing fake tickets. just jot down some bogus info, turn it in to your supervisor, then throw the others in the trash. then the supervisor sees the activity, but nothing appears in the court records.
people whine about quotas all the time. funny thing is no one whines more than i. i saw a sgt tell an officer that he needed to write more tickets. i complained on him for establishing a quota. they try to get me to write a ticket, i spend the next two weeks writing nothing but warnings. they can't tell me to write a single ticket, but they can tell me to stop a certain number of cars.