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We don't isolate data based on each patrolman's stats like that, we just keep records as a whole.

The great thing about my job is there are no need to. We are given full discretion on how many citations we write or don't write as with any other department.  I have walked into patrol rooms that DO contain a itemized listing of each Officers contacts, such as cites and arrest.  How do you gentlemen feel about this???

Yet, I will say, that of course, vanity DOES get the best of us...and for my own entertainment(in the OP words) I have counted my arrest versus department wide stats, and I have about or over 1/3 of the combined total arrest this year. For a department of only 17 troops.  :)  Since, we don't have access to warnings/citations we issue..... I couldn't begin to tell you how I rank on that.

Avenger2354 says ...

Sorry, I didn't mean to ask for data in the strict scientific model.  I figure most cops know about how many terds they lock up a month and likewise about how many traffic tickets they write a month. I did say it was for both educational and entertainment purposes, in hind sight I guess it was more for entertainment.  Any members here from Fairfax VA who ever appeared before Judge Waters can probably remember that if you were the first officer on the docket where the dockets are arranged starting with the officer with the least amount of tickets and continuing on to the one with the most, it was common for Judge Waters to say to that first officer with only one ticket, "I see it was a busy month for you" .  Any Hoo, there's a saying that the rain is only temporary but stats are forever, so get some!!!

No worries, like I said....Vanity gets the best of us! lol   I'm glad to see another officer calling their suspects turds! Honestly, i don't really keep track by month.  I guess I would say, monthly.....I lock up 6ish, and made about 50 contacts. Of course, that can go up and down as I don't keep track by numbers like that.

Well when I was Sgt/Investigator in addition to all the other things I had to do I averaged 18-20 arrest per month 35-40 cites and somewhere around 28-30 investigations of which 8-10 were felonies. All this in a small city of 2,000. I investigated everything from spitting on the sidewalk to attempted homicides. Luckily we did not have a homicide within the city limits in  forever. 

This is an intresting topic.

In part it depends on what an agency considers an arrest.  Some officers will tell you any time they write a summons, it's an arrest.  Some will tell you if they write a summons for a Traffic or Admin code misdemeanor, it's an arrest.

Here in New York City, an arrest is AN ARREST.  If you are taken to the precinct, an arrest number is generated and you are fingerprinted, it's an arrest.  That is how we track the number of arrests an officer makes.

An officer on patrol answering radio runs may make 5 or 6 arrests a year.  An active guy may make 20 a year.  They will also answer 25-30 radio calls a tour (8h 35m).  When you make an arrest here, your day is done if you are a patrol cop.  You come in, your partner gets reassigned and you start your work.  It can take a few hours to process the arrest, and then more time waiting to talk to the DA.

Guys in Conditions units may make 5-6 arrests a month.  Some guys are very action and may make more, but each command will only have 2 or 3 guys like that.

Most will do the bare minimum, which normally is one arrest a quarter.

As far as summons, a patrol guy may write 1 or 2 criminal court summons a month, if that.  They most liekly write 10 movers and/or parkers a month.

Supervisors (sergeants and above) don't make arrests, as a general rule. 

I only present this thread in a light-hearted way.  My agency doesn't use stats or quoto's to measure performance as there really isn't a fair way to implement something like that and I wouldn't be interested in it anyway.  Enforcement is only one side of an extremely complex job. Our bosses are pretty good at knowing who is doing the work (by that I mean all the work, not just the enforcement).  Some nights you wind up sitting on a suicide for hours or get assigned some special assignment that eats up your whole shift.  Many Deputies have specialties that are called upon also that take them away from patrol work.  When I talk about stats here I'm just talking about unofficial squad competition stuff.  In my experience I've always felt that it has built comraderie within the squad.  It definitely contributes to a fair share of war stories and roll call ribbing. 

Didn't mean to sound hostile.  Working on our union board and having to deal with the Department administrator's way of dealing with their version of unproductive employees.  Administration came up with a way of figuring out how many tickets an officer should write.  Tickets written by all officers in an area divided by the number of officers.  Vacation days, neighborhood projects, sick time, or calls for service were never taken into account.  Talk of discipline was brought up.  This was quashed quickly.

I love making arrests like the next good cop, but don't let your dept. use this against you. 

Sheepdog267 says ...

I shuffle about 80 pounds of paperwork each month!

LOL