Battle Creek’s police chief has set a new traffic ticket policy:
The police department will require its patrol officers to write a certain number of tickets every day. But, the police chief says it’s not a quota.
Not a quota, eh? Let’s see about that:
quo´•ta, n.
1. A proportional share, as of goods, assigned to a group or to each member of a group; an allotment.
2. A production assignment.
So how is this not a quota, exactly? Oh, right, because the chief said it wasn’t. Let’s try that, shall we? “Battle Creek’s police chief is President of the United States.” Hmmm…