The plan offers analysts who demonstrate what FDLE officials deem continued high-performance a 2 percent salary increase at the end of the fiscal year. Some analysts expressed concern that the compensation plan puts too much emphasis on the volume of evidence an analyst processes. But for the analysts, it's got to be about getting the job done right. Every analyst here still has their integrity. We couldn't do our job without it.
Professional integrity is essential for the analysts.
Experts at the Jacksonville crime lab were called to testify in court for about 300 cases last year. The analysts said they do not allow the push to meet quotas to adversely affect the quality of their work, but some said it was something that the analysts often discuss. But there's a professional ethic in this business, and you're not going to threaten your reputation for a mediocre salary enhancement. According to Raimondi and a spokesman at the FBI, neither federal crime lab has any sort of performance based budgeting program or quotas in place. Sometimes a quota system can get in the way and have people do a rush job.