Money & Oil - FF033

Portsmouth PD has a quota, they don’t want to call it a quota, but when you create benchmarks that include how many traffic stops and tickets their officers write, and then evaluate their performance based on these benchmarks, it’s a quota. This incentivizes officers who understandably want to get promoted and compensated for doing a good job, to meet these benchmarks, which creates more traffic stops and more tickets. This is a problem and we’ll discuss it next on the Freecast. News Portsmouth PD have a quota system Portsmouth city patrol officers claim they’re working under a new quota mandate for writing tickets and “other performance benchmarks” while Chief David Mara said there are no quotas and he’s opposed to them Mara said his officers have been instructed that if they’re not busy answering calls, they should be enforcing traffic laws and giving tickets to drivers who break them. The police union is demanding to bargain with the Police Commission because a “de facto quota system” has been used for their performance evaluations in March. The city keeps track of its officers’ daily performance Number of traffic stop completed Summons issued Property checks performed. Since the “Hands Free Law” Came into effect, summons have quadrupled between ‘15 and ‘16. They are on course to double last year’s numbers (chart below)   Tiny homes A Lee resident and Vietnam Veteran who was homeless after his first three years as a veteran is trying to pay it forward. Peter MacDonald Has four “tiny houses” on his property and a House that is used as a chapel. Local government thugs say this is a zoning violation as it is zoned as a residential property. They also say he doesn’t have appropriate electrical and plumbing. MacDonald says he is running a religious organization and says he is doing nothing wrong.   Strafford County Government incompetence has FIVE inmates overdose Tuesday June 6th five inmates at Strafford County Jail were treated for drug overdoses at Wentworth Douglass Hospital in Dover. Dover Fire Chief Hagan said when they called it was only three inmates but when they got there it was five. Luckily responders got there in time and they were able to use Narcan and everyone appears to be okay. Hagan said, “These were serious overdoses” This comes after a story we covered here on the Freecast, episode 28 where a correctional officer was caught attempting to bring heroin into the facility No matter how big or small the government is it’ll always be corrupt   Food Trucks hit Somersworth this Father’s Day Men love food On a day that celebrates men in particular, the first ever Seacoast Food Truck and Craft Beer festival will be coming to downtown Somersworth on June 18th from 12pm-5pm High St 20 food trucks 16 Craft Breweries, this is the future of NH celebrations. $5 entry fee if you order online or $10 on site. There’s a beer lover’s package and a VIP pass that allows early entry as well. Check out our facebook page or the show notes for links to get tickets for this event. What a great idea this is for father’s day   HB 436 is signed by the governor (the bitcoin bill) Exempting persons using virtual currency from registering as money transmitters Last year a law was passed regulating all cryptocurrency exchanges to register as money transmitters Crypto trading sites such as Poloniex pulled out of NH Sununu signed into law on 06/02/2017 and it will therefore go into effect on August 1st, 2017 Local happenings Swarm City Boardwalk Launch Praxeum June 15th 7:00 PM Leave your kids and pets at home. July 9th Praxeum Market   Philosophy of Liberty What is money?   Seacoast History The World’s Largest Oil Refinery That Wasn’t Social media We want to hear what you like, or what you think we could improve on. If you have a suggestion for a topic, segment, correction or just want to say you like the show, email us at [email protected] We want this show to be the best it can be!   Featuring: Host Matt Carano, Mike Vine, Nick Boyle and Rodger Paxton Special Guests: None Producer: Rodger Paxton Editor: Matt Carano