Traffic Citation Quota System or Not?

We'll let our gentle readers be the judge.

The Standard-Examiner's Jeff Demoss reports this morning what has already been discussed here in a lower thread, i.e., that House Rep. Neil Hansen's House Bill 255 (prohibition of traffic citation quotas) was stalled yesterday in Senate committee by a tied 2-2 vote.

Whereas Representative Hansen contends that a traffic citation quota system exists in Emerald City, Senator Greiner continues to alternate between flatly denying the existence of such a system -- to a possibly tacit admission -- that "traffic citations are [merely] a small part of sweeping performance evaluations that rate officers in 18 criteria."

Similar to being "only partly pregnant," we guess.

Being the curious type, we rustled up copies of OPD's Performance Evaluation Standards (PEP) sheets, and uploaded them in PDF format to our archive storage site. In this connection we link here as an example the PEP sheet applicable to Emerald City's Traffic Officers. Interested readers can scroll down to the bottom of the left colum of page three, where you'll come across the column labeled "citations," setting forth traffic citation standards for "traffic officers." We'll leave it up to our readers to be the judge as to whether a system of traffic citation quotas actually exists here in Emerald City.

We'll also note parenthetically that numeric citation standards exist for all other Emerald City officers, including Traffic Master Officers, Uniform Division Officers and Uniform Division Master Officers and plainclothes.

For the moment we'll resist the impulse to submit the attched PEP sheet to our own micro-analysis. Instead we'll leave it up to our readers.

Query: Traffic citation quota system in Emerald City or not?

You be the judge.

Don't let the cat get your tongues.