Officers File Lawsuit Against The Richardson Police Department Over Illegal Ticket Quota Operation

Kayla Walker and David Conklin, two police officers from Richardson, Texas, are suing the city and its leaders. They say officers are being illegally made to distribute a certain amount of tickets each month.

Walker and Conklin, have been employed with the department since 2008 and 2011, respectively. They say that the Richardson Police Department has enforced a quota system since they started working there. The two note that they never acted on the guideline and filed complaints about the situation. But, in return, they were harassed and retaliated against by the RPD.

Court documents state that there was an unwritten but understood policy that enforced a ticket quota that is illegal under Transportation Code Section 772.002. This occurred while Jimmy Spivey, who retired in 2021, was the chief.

The lawsuit claims that if officers didn’t get a certain amount of tickets, they would receive bad evaluations and suffer poor work conditions. Walker disclosed that her employment file documents many instances where she hadn’t totaled a certain amount of tickets.

Additionally, Conklin says that in 2016, he was reprimanded for not arresting several people during a mandatory arrest raid. He stated that if he had, it might have been “unconstitutional and unreasonable.”

Walker’s public allegations were investigated but found to be invalidated. But, court documents show that only specific officers were interviewed and evidence of an inappropriate quota system was actually found.

Walker and Conklin would like the courts to force RPD to stop enforcing the quota policy and to pay the two for violating their rights to free speech.