"Write tickets, do searches, make money. They’ll have a quota they have to fill."

Policing as shakedown racket in NYC. When everything's against the law, everyone's a criminal. Note the commentary about how the "legal" cig sellers who have to buy a license an pay 9 bucks in tax per pack went to the people they're paying off to "eliminate" the competition that hadn't paid for protection. 

All I know is New York City. Nowadays, since Kelly’s Operation Impact, rookies are taught one thing: Write tickets, do searches, make money. They’ll have a quota they have to fill. They’re not supposed to, but they do. They come up not knowing their asses from their elbows. These rookies don’t understand how to let the small stuff go. They’ll be on your back for a bag of grass. So then when things happen, they overreact.

It's still racketeering by a criminal enterprise. Even if it's legal. But usually the Gambinos don't murder the guy. And they sure as hell don't have the Staten Island Grand Jury bought the way the popo do.

Everybody loves 'broken windows policing'  but Broken windows only works when there are a limited number of things to police.  When everything is against the law Broken Windows becomes a license for municipalities to shake down and harass unpopular people. New York is once again an extreme example of a trend taken too far. 

Self righteous and controlling is no way to run a city.