Fired For Standing for Freedom: I Got Into Law Enforcement to Serve and Protect, Not Be a Bully.selfnews Post When whistleblowers, truth advocates and government officials are vilified, criminalized and terminated for doing the right thing, thats how. Auburn, Alabama is home to sprawling plains, Auburn University, and a troubling police force. After the arrival of a new police chief in 2010, the department entered an era of ticket quotas and worse. When I first heard about the quotas I was appalled, says former Auburn police officer Justin Hanners, who claims he and other cops were given directives to hassle, ticket, or arrest specific numbers of residents per shift. I got into law enforcement to serve and protect, not be a bully. There are not that many speeders, there are not that many people running red lights to get those numbers, so what [the police] do is they lower their standards, says Hanners. That led to the department encouraging officers to arrest people that Hanners didnt feel like had broken the law. Former Reason staffer Radley Balko, now an investigative reporter for the Huffington Post and author of the new book, Rise of the Warrior Cop, says that this isnt just a nuisance, it infringes on public safety. You have a policy that encourages police to create petty crimes and ignore serious crimes, and thats clearly the opposite of what we want our police to be doing, says Balko. Reason via Infowars Mac Slavos many articles can be found on his own site SHTFplan.com, where this article first appeared. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 