Myths people have about cops

Do cops have monthly quotas for tickets? Am I more prone to getting a ticket at the end of the month to meet monthly quotas?

The truth of the matter is that the days of ticket quotas as a means to gauge officer productivity is long gone. In fact, in most states, law enforcement quotas are against the law, and expressly prohibited by policy. This myth came about due to the fact some agencies, more specifically smaller local agencies, are funded by ticket revenue. To combat the tendency for the public to think officers unnecessarily write tickets to fund their departments, some agencies are funded through other sources. For example, the largest state police department in the nation is not funded by ticket revenue, but by motor vehicle registrations fees.