The NYPD has found a foolproof way to keep cops from “fixing” traffic tickets for relatives and pals.
The department has installed a new computer system to monitor how many summonses are given out daily — and to make sure none of the paperwork “disappears” before making its way into the court system, sources said yesterday.
Under the old system, cops would simply put copies of the tickets they handed out into the precinct’s “summonses box.” The tickets would then be transferred to the courts, usually within a day.
If an officer was asked to “fix,” or destroy the ticket, he could just then go back into the box and retrieve it before it got to the court.
“Once all the copies of the summons were destroyed, the issue disappeared to summons heaven and nobody was the wiser,” one source said. But under the new system, cops are now given a book of 25 blank tickets that have been pre-scanned by computer, linking each summons to that particular cop.
At the end of each cop’s tour, a copy of any summons handed out is re-scanned into the computer, logging it into the system.