By Debbie Dujanovic
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — If you've ever gotten a traffic ticket ,
you know the sinking feeling you get when police lights pop into your
rear view mirror. But what if you found out that citation could be tied
to a police department ticket quota or prize contests?
A series of Cottonwood Heights Police Department emails from 2011 and 2012 have recently been revealed and they discuss such quotas and contests.
Some of the emails show police administration offering prizes to officers for writing citations like "free car wash coupons for the next officer to impound vehicles that have no insurance."
In another email, a contest announced a prize of gift cards to the officers who caught anyone tagging or spray painting graffiti. One Cottonwood Heights resident said he doesn't like the idea of contests for citations.
"That doesn't make sense at all. They should just do their job, that's what they get paid for," Kevin Corkrey said.
Another resident, Shelley Croft, said, "I would like to think that police officers could appropriately manage public safety without having a specific number of people they had to pull over."
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