Opinion ID: 4099114
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Heading: New Jersey Anti-Quota Law

Text: Plaintiffs assert that Camden’s patrols policy violates New Jersey’s anti-quota statute. That statute, entitled “Quotas for arrests or citations prohibited; use of numbers in law enforcement officer evaluations,” provides in relevant part:
police department or force . . . shall not establish any quota for arrests or citations. The department or force may, however, collect, analyze and apply information concerning the number of arrests and citations in order to ensure that a particular officer or group of officers does not violate any applicable legal obligation.
not use the number of arrests or 19 See Blackburn v. United Parcel Serv., Inc., 179 F.3d 81, 102 (3d Cir. 1999) (“We will assume that Blackburn’s testimony regarding what Zileski told him was effectively a proffer of the testimony that Zileski himself would give at trial, and we therefore treat this as evidence capable of being admitted at trial.”); J.F. Feeser, Inc. v. Serv-A-Portion, Inc., 909 F.2d 1524, 1542 (3d Cir. 1990) (“[T]here is no indication that Spagnola’s salesforce would be unavailable to testify at trial. [Thus t]he averments of Spagnola’s affidavit are capable of proof through admissible evidence.”). 8 citations issued by a law enforcement officer as the sole criterion for promotion, demotion, dismissal, or the earning of any benefit provided by the department or force. Any such arrests or citations, and their ultimate dispositions, may be considered in evaluating the overall performance of a law enforcement officer.20 Plaintiffs claim that this statute applies to the directed patrols policy even though the statute’s text only addresses arrests and citations. Although the challenged patrols policy only requires civilian encounters, Plaintiffs claim that it is applied in a manner that also mandates citations. In arguing to the contrary, Camden claims that since the New Jersey law only applies to arrests and citations and the patrols policy has no such requirements, the policy is consistent with the New Jersey statute. In granting summary judgment on this claim in favor of Camden, the district court correctly relied on the limited scope of the text of the statute—which does apply only to arrests and citations, and not to the civilian “encounters” that are at the center of this dispute. Accordingly, we will affirm the court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Camden on Plaintiffs’ claims under the anti-quota law.