A Quota by Any Other Name...
...is a "summons performance measurement". But in a bit of political doublespeak, Mikey says that telling beat cops that their performance will be judged, in part, on how many summonses they write is not an informal quota. No quotas for New York City cops. Nope. Nothing to see here, folks. Just move right along.
I've heard this bit about the numbers before. Ostensibly it's true that parking tickets and moving violations are down, but that doesn't mean that other types of tickets aren't up. Notice the administration ignores discussing any other sort of ticket. Furthermore, the parking ticket and moving violation fees basically doubled, so even a 17% and 7% decrease in summonses respectively equates to some nice pocket change to the city coffers.