RICHARDSON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Two Richardson Police Department officers have filed a lawsuit towards the City of Richardson and police officers, claiming they’ve been illegally requiring officers to subject a sure variety of tickets monthly.

Officers Kayla Walker and David Conklin, who’ve been with the division since 2008 and 2011 respectively, allege that the Richardson Police Department has used a quota system since earlier than they joined. They declare they by no means took half in it and that after filing complaints against the system, they have been illegally harassed and retaliated towards by the division.

The go well with alleges that the through the tenure of Former Chief Jimmy Spivey, who retied in May 2021, there was “an unwritten but well-known policy that constituted a ticket quota in violation of the Texas Transportation Code Section 772.002” that required officers “to be at or above the departmental or sector averages in their traffic ticket writing.”

Moreover, the go well with claims, “failure to maintain an ‘average’ number of tickets would result in disciplinary action, including poor evaluations that would lead to immediate negative working conditions that could lead to termination for cause.” Walker alleges that her employment file accommodates “many such references or requirements” about not reaching particular numbers of site visitors stops.

The coverage additionally allegedly utilized to the variety of arrests an officer made every month. Conklin claims that in 2016, he was “reprimanded for failing to arrest multiple persons” at a “mandatory arrest raid,” regardless of that doing so would have probably been “unconstitutional” and “unreasonable.”

Although the division launched an inside investigation following Walker’s public claims, it discovered that her allegations have been unsubstantiated. The lawsuit claims that this investigation was manipulated to included solely a restricted number of officers and alleges that “patrol officers who were interviewed by outside counsel” confirmed an unlawful quota system was in place.

The go well with asks {that a} Dallas District Court Judge declare the ticket quota coverage in violation of the Texas Transportation Code, order the Richardson Police Department to cease the coverage, and compensate Walker and Conklin for infringing on their rights to free speech.

The case has but to be assigned a choose or case quantity.

Richardson Police Chief Gary L. Tittle launched the next assertion on the matter: