Spokesman: State police have no ticket quota
Published 7:00 pm Monday, January 15, 2018
Do state troopers have daily and monthly ticket quotas?
No, said state police spokesman Sgt. James Anderson.
Under Louisiana law, state and local law enforcement agencies can’t discipline or reward officers based on the number of tickets they write.
“No municipality or any police department thereof, nor any parish or any sheriff’s department thereof, shall establish or maintain, formally or informally, a plan to evaluate, promote, compensate, or discipline a law enforcement officer on the basis of the officer’s issuance of a predetermined or specified number of any type or combination of types of traffic citations or require or suggest to a law enforcement officer, that the law enforcement officer is required or expected to issue a predetermined or specified number of any type or combination of types of traffic citations within a specified period. …,” reads Louisiana R.S. 40:2401.1, titled “Prohibition against quotas.”
“No state agency, political subdivision, or law enforcement agency shall offer a financial reward or other benefit to a law enforcement officer which is determined by or based on the number of citations issued.”
More information, www.legis.la.gov.
Act 962 addressed sex offender notices
I see these ads in the classifieds all the time about Act 962 of the Louisiana Legislature. What does that refer to?
It refers to a 1992 law that requires sex offenders to notify communities of their presence and their crimes as conditions of probation and parole.
More information, www.legis.la.gov.
Wind chill affects people, animals
If the actual temperature is 35 degrees but the wind chill makes it feel like 25 degrees, will water freeze?
No, said Andy Patrick, meteorologist-in-charge at the local National Weather Service office.
(As an aside: Recall the presence of liquid water in puddles alongside city streets Friday, when the above conditions prevailed.)
From a weather service website:
“The wind chill temperature is how cold people and animals feel when outside. Wind chill is based on the rate of heat loss from exposed skin caused by wind and cold. As the wind increases, it draws heat from the body, driving down skin temperature and eventually the internal body temperature. Therefore, the wind makes it FEEL much colder. …
“The only effect wind chill has on inanimate objects, such as car radiators and water pipes, is to shorten the amount of time for the object to cool. The inanimate object will not cool below the actual air temperature.”
More information, www.nws.noaa.gov/om/winter/faqs.
