NYC - Mayor Bloomberg Insisted, The City Does Not Impose Ticket-Writing Quotas

NYC - Mayor Bloomberg, insisted that the city does not impose ticket-writing quotas on its cops - just "performance standards" - despite a contrary ruling by a city arbitrator this week.

"There are not ticket quotas, but there are performance standards," said Bloomberg.

Bloomberg's careful phrasing came a day after a city arbitrator found that 75th Precinct brass in Brooklyn forced cops to meet monthly ticket quotas.

Internal memos showed that cops in the East New York precinct were expected to write four parking tickets, three moving violations, three quality-of-life summonses and two stop-and-frisks every month - or face "poor annual evaluations" from their bosses.