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This Week Community News : Officers told to write more tickets
A significant drop in the number of traffic citations issued by Reynoldsburg police prompted Sgt. Steve Baughn to tell officers by e-mail last week they need to issue 18 tickets by the end of the month or they will "receive 90-day evaluation letters in addition to letters of counseling to start with."

Police Chief David Suciu and Mayor Brad McCloud said Monday there are no set quotas, although there are performance standards each officer needs to meet -- including traffic enforcement.

Suciu said the message Baughn was conveying in his e-mail was not for officers to meet quotas but to keep their eyes open more for traffic violations. He said traffic enforcement will always be a high-priority goal for the patrol division.
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"The current averages reflect approximately one ticket per week which will in no way cut it," he wrote. "Beginning with this month, officers will be expected to attain at least last year's levels of enforcement unless there are mitigating circumstances. In other words if you only have three or four ... officer-initiated cites this month, you will need to get to 18.1 by the end of the month."

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be careful if you are dricing in/around reynoldsburg. (im also assuming with people driving a tad less and some crackdowns in central ohio meaning traffic seems to be going slower) that this isnt the only muni in the hunt for more revenue...
 
A significant drop in the number of traffic citations issued by Reynoldsburg police prompted Sgt. Steve Baughn to tell officers by e-mail last week they need to issue 18 tickets by the end of the month or they will "receive 90-day evaluation letters in addition to letters of counseling to start with."
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Theoretically, what if no one was speeding? What then? Give bogus tickets? Any law enforcement agency that says they dont have quotas is lying through its teeth...

EDIT: I just read through the whole article, and holy shit, talk about total bullshit:

Sgt. Steve Baughn to tell officers by e-mail last week they need to issue 18 tickets by the end of the month or they will "receive 90-day evaluation letters in addition to letters of counseling to start with."
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Mayor Brad McCloud said ... "We don't specify X number of citations...
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Sounds like 18 is pretty fucking specific.

...McCloud said. "We will not have an official quota in place so if an officer doesn't write 18.1 tickets, he will not be disciplined."
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Bullshit. Your Sgt. specifically said officers will get eval letters and LOCs if they don't give out 18 tickets.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1437757; said:
Theoretically, what if no one was speeding? What then? Give bogus tickets? Any law enforcement agency that says they dont have quotas is lying through its teeth...

EDIT: I just read through the whole article, and holy shit, talk about total bullshit:


Sounds like 18 is pretty fucking specific.


Bullshit. Your Sgt. specifically said officers will get eval letters and LOCs if they don't give out 18 tickets.
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Mili as a 23 year resident of the crappy city of reynoldsburg let me tell you that being even remotely intelligent isnt a prerequisite to be in a decision making position in this town...theyre all maroons...cops included
 
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normally im one of the first to jump up and defend law enforcement but this is absolute grade a bullshit. law enforcement has nothing to do with generating revenue. that simply isn't their mission. so... what if the economy continues to tank? whats the next step? no longer responding to calls that can't be punished with a fine?

911: yes ma'am, i realize he's stabbing you to death. but the thing you don't understand is that this is an attempted murder charge. that means we will have to incarcerate him. thats a financial drain on law enforcement not a revenue generator. now if you start screaming really loud and have one of your neighbors call in and complain we can come over and write you a ticket for disturbing the peace... until then its simply not financially beneficial for us to help you. a charge of 4.99 has been automatically added to your phone bill for the use of 911, have a nice day!
 
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