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Editorial: Arrests should be based on crimes, not quotas

By The Examiner
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CitiStat ? or the police version, COMSTAT ? may effectively monitor city services, including the work of city employees.

But while it can provide the data for the analysis, it can?t analyze policy. Examiner Staff Writer Stephen Janis has reported that evaluations of Baltimore City police officers often rely on an “unofficial quota system” that promotes officers based, at least in part, on the number of arrests they make. That would be easy to track. But Janis? reporting points to innocent people becoming victims of quotas.

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