SECRET AUDIO 1 - DSNY Illegal 10-Ticket Per Day Quota for Sanitation Enforcement Agents NYC 2015
Channel: Marcus Conte
Date: 2017-03-02

The City of New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has an illegal 10-ticket per day quota for Sanitation Enforcement Agents. Mayor Bill de Blasio and DSNY Commissioner Kathryn Garcia have used the power of their offices to shake down city residents and businesses. As well, city employees who speak out about the quota are targeted & fired [https://youtu.be/N1YJMxh2-H8]. The policy is unlawful, unethical and downright abusive. Many of the tickets are believed to be fakes. For the good of the City,  Mayor de Balsio and Commissioner Garcia should address the problem, or step down. 

Hear DSNY Lieutenant Ortega (caught on hidden microphone) spill the truth about the ticket quota. 

September 2015, Roll Call - DSNY Sanitation Enforcement, Manhattan, New York... 

0:00 
Good morning everybody…I’m Lieutenant Ortega. I came from the Bronx. I was a Sergeant there. Now I’m the Lieutenant of 9-5 Manhattan…Everybody knows what the job requires, right? What does the job expect you to do? They want you to go out and write summonses, ok, and that’s what our main function is, to write summonses…I see some numbers that I’m not happy with…They expect double digits… 

5:20
I’m not just a supervisor that just came up as an agent, made Sergeant, and made lieutenant. I was an agent for over 10 years. I was a sergeant for over 10 years. I’ve been here 24 years…I’ve done it all…

6:00
When I was doing it we had to write 15. Then they moved it up to 16, then they moved it up to 18…Kelly had us writing 18 summonses a day, so, I’ve been there…I liked being an Agent. I can get my numbers quickly and my day is over…

9:14
I’m very fair - I’m very honest. If I see something going on I’ll tell you straight to you’re face - I’m not happy with what I’m seeing…my whole thing is about doing the job and going home…but the first thing that’s going to happen is they start seeing 1 or 2 summonses everyday, there going to tell me blockface [no car] people. I don’t like blockfacing [punishment]. I can do it, but I don’t believe that works…

11:29
This is a job, we all know what we gotta do, we know what’s expected; our main function is to generate revenue for the City. That’s basically what we are. There’s nothing else about us. We go out there. We write tickets, and we go home…yesterday was a small crew I think. I saw yesterday’s numbers [in 206 book], couple people wrote above 10 and a couple people wrote under 10…but honestly, I wanna see more done. And if you have any trouble, please reach out to my supervisors over the radio. Let them know ‘low Pro” [low productivity]. Once you say that I expect them to come over and assist you. 4 hours into your shift, if you don’t have more than 5 summonses, I expect you to reach out to my sergeants. Actually, I would say 3…

15:29
But again, if you get your work done you will never hear me say, “this is all you gonna give me?” No, you wrote 10. That’s good enough for me…also you gotta get a late summons…

17:20
…don’t make me look bad by writing under 10…

19:40
Right now I got Captain Neives…once Pascal comes, I never worked with Pascal as a Captain or as a Lieutenant. It’s a different story. Things will change. But I know that if you-all are only writing 3 or 4 she’s gonna start getting on my case…

21:25
If you’re doing what you’re supposed to do out there I can say, ‘yea Chief, look at my numbers. Look at what my Agents are doing.’ This is what we do. I will stick 100% by you. But if you write 1 summons how can I justify that?…This is how they use to look at it back in the day. An agent should write 2 summonses every hour. How many hours are there? 8 hours – there should be at least 16 summonses. That’s how they use to do it, that’s how we got that number 16… MAKE A CONTRIBUTION: http://www.PayPal.Me/TheGhostOfBrooklyn