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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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Is the Deschutes County Sheriff still broke?Is the Deschutes County Sheriff so broke that they need to introduce a This busy summer, Deschutes County sheriff's deputies are being held to new "minimum performance standards" that go well beyond positive dealings with the public and living up to the agency's 'core values," and include an "absolute minimum" number of traffic tickets and warnings, criminal citations and DUII arrests, Sheriff Les Stiles confirmed Wednesday.OK, so how is this not a quota system? Don't they have enough money after winning the election and finding extra money afterwards? Anybody out there good in vinyl detailing? Someone needs to make authentic looking coverups so the emblem on the side of their patrol cars says "Proudly Ticketing Our Community." Here's their site for reference. Meanwhile, I'm in Deschutes County Sheriff territory on my work commute, and will probably get pulled over for this. Posted by Jake on 07/28/04 @ 10:40 PM
Posted in Local | 4 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 4 CommentsJesse Thompson said on 07/28/04 @ 11:47 PM:> Meanwhile, I'm in Deschutes Country > Sheriff territory on my work commute, > and will probably get pulled over for > this. That's not a joke. I'm the one quoted in the story who was pulled over twice in two days. (well, technically Darla was pulled over the second time.. same car though) I seriously considered that maybe there were quotas, or that maybe the overfunded department suddenly had too little to keep themselves occupied, or that maybe I was just bitter.. until the third day when that memo seriously just fell in my lap and answered my question for me. Jon said on 07/28/04 @ 11:56 PM: Yeah, it just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it? Isaac Laquedem said on 07/29/04 @ 10:11 AM: My celebration of ThURLsday today begins with a link to this story at UtterlyBoring, which in turn links to Bend.com. The Deschutes County Sheriff has imposed "performance standards" (meaning quotas) to push his troopers to write more tickets. It reminded Read more in ThURLsday II - more links that amuse and educate » Malo said on 11/29/04 @ 02:32 PM: Obey the law and you'll be fine, you stupid hippies. Post a comment |
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