A Utah state House panel yesterday gave its approval to a proposal that would impose a statewide ban on ticket quotas. Representative Neil Hansen (D-Ogden) brought back the bill which had passed the full House last year, but was blocked by Ogden Police Chief Jon Greiner -- who also happens to be a state senator serving on the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee. Hansen hopes his legislation will clear the Senate roadblock this time.So where do the police stand?
"This issue is not a new issue," Hansen said. "All this (bill) is doing is putting in statute that they cannot tell their officers to go out and write a certain number of tickets within a specific time.... It more or less lets law enforcement go out and do their job."
Hansen testified that officers had contacted his office to complain that they were under continual pressure to write traffic tickets instead of warnings. To avoid the word "quota," police management used the term "performance based evaluation." Hansen's bill would prohibit municipalities, counties, sheriffs and police chiefs from requiring officers to issue a certain number of tickets in a given amount of time.
Police officials testified against a ban on a practice that they denied has ever existed.I see.
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I see you and your bro boosting Mitt at Hot Air, Go Mitt! Thanks for putting the Barnyard in such esteemed company on your blogroll. Stop by and say hey here and there. I need to do the same.
Yeah, he's a full blown Mitt supporter. Not me though. I would like to be, but I can't bring myself to support a gun-grabber, esp. after what he said last night at the debate.
The cops in Salt Lake that I've known have always said that there is definitely a quota system, it is just not referred to by that name.
He is not a gun grabber, Stan, he knows the difference in fully auto machine guns and semi-auto look alikes. I don't believe folks should be allowed to own machine guns either. He wants to punish criminals not lawful gun owners. He knows anti-gun laws only help criminals and hurt law abiding citizens. Keep your facts straight.
Trust me, I want to support Mitt, and I have looked at his position on guns. Yeah he says he supports the 2nd Amendment, but he also supports the Assault Weapon ban, as in black semi-automatic AR15s and similar guns no more powerful or functionally different than many hunting rifles.
Also he said he would like to ban or otherwise restrict high capacity magazines... I don't know if he means 10 is high capacity or 30, but that really doesn't matter. He is either ignorant of firearms or he's a moderate gun-grabber, or both. That's dangerous.
Stan, I don't think he wants a showdown with us. I wouldn't worry about if I were you. He does not break promises and he is now a vocal advocate of gun rights saying he will support NO new regulations.
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