For the past several months, FOX 13 News has been investigating the Ogden Police Department's “point system” that evaluates officers based on the number of tickets they write.
OGDEN, Utah — For the past several months, FOX 13 News has been investigating how drivers, state legislators, and police officers believe Ogden is breaking the law by employing a “point system” that evaluates officers based on the number of tickets they write.
“The standard in traffic has always been one citation per street hour, so if an officer works 75 street hours they should have a minimum of 75 citations,” wrote Lt. Cameron Stiver in an email to Lt. Will Farr. “What the graph shows is that on average the traffic officers are exceeding the number of citations per street hours, which is truly representative of the work being done.”“The standard for traffic has always been, one citation per street hour, minimum,” he wrote.
The presentation lists the following goal: “Have citations pay for officer’s wages, benefits, equipment, and vehicle.” “That email didn’t ever leave my desk,” Chief Young said. “That was the end of it. Nothing has happened to it since then.” “There’s just no excuse for that,” said one officer. “This is what makes people hate … There’s no trust. We don’t even trust our own administration, so why would we expect the public to trust our administration?”
“People want to pitch it as a revenue builder. That’s not it at all,” said Mayor Caldwell prior to FOX 13 News receiving the emails.“It’s an absolute joke,” said one officer. “I’m surprised that the chief was willing to go before the city council, and the public, and lie like that.”Officer Alex Wolfe wrote an email a sergeant explaining how many citations he wrote that day.The subject line reads: “Quota.”Officer Alex Yapias received the following text message: “You got your traffic score up to .
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