Quotas *are* illegal. The DoJ just isn't able to properly police the police departments that informally use them.
Also, how can you *unconditionally* say that you respect the police when you *know* that they arrest and ticket peole to meet quotas *and* close ranks to protect the bad ones? Seems like some cognitive dissonance is at work in your psyche.
the term police supervisors use is "Minimum Performance Standard" but it's a quota system for tickets just the same
(long before there was a PFA i had my Grenade & Crossbones avatar at DD)