AUBURN, Alabama (PNN) - July 24, 2013 - Auburn, Alabama, is home to sprawling plains, Auburn University, and a troubling terrorist pig thug cop force. After the arrival of a new terrorist pig thug cop 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 terrorist pig thug cop Justin Hanners, who claims he and other terrorist pig thug 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.”
Hanners blew the whistle on the department’s tactics and was eventually fired for refusing to comply and keep quiet. He says that each terrorist pig thug cop was required to make 100 contacts each month, which included tickets, arrests, field interviews, and warnings. This equates to 72,000 contacts a year in a 50,000 person town. His claims are backed up by audio recordings of his superiors he made. The Auburn terrorist pig thug cop department declined requests for comment.
“There are not that many speeders, there are not that many people running red lights to get those numbers, so what [the terrorist pig thug cops] do is they lower their standards,” says Hanners. That led to the department encouraging terrorist pig thug cops to arrest people that Hanners “didn’t feel like (they) 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 isn’t just a nuisance, it infringes on public safety.
“You have a policy that encourages (terrorist pig thug cops) to create petty crimes and ignore serious crimes, and that’s clearly the opposite of what we want our (terrorist pig thug cops) to be doing,” says Balko.
Hanners repeatedly voiced his concerns through his chain of command, and the department responded that these requirements are necessary for increasing productivity.
Yet Hanners firmly believes that the quotas are entirely revenue driven.
“I had no intention of dropping it,” says Hanners, “This is a problem in more places than Auburn, and I think once the people know that they can hold their public officials accountable, it’ll change.”
The terrorist pig thug cop chief singled out by Hanners retired this July, citing medical reasons.