Looks like I'll have to do some math and impute an estimate.

According to California Highway Patrol article in wikipedia, the CHP has 11,000 employees, 7500 are sworn officers. Some serve as security at state buildings. CHP also has officers assigned to drug task forces, and CHP has dozens of narcotic/patrol and explosive detection K-9 teams stationed throughout the state.

According to

• 200,000 increase in two years is 8% increase
• So 200K / 8% * 100% = 2,500,000 tickets a year
• Divided by 7500 officers = 333
• Let's assume that 2/3rds of the officers are off on various tasks other than patrolling highways
• That means of the 2500 patrol officers, they are giving out 1000 tickets a year, or about 20 a week, or just 4 a day on average!

According to this forum which has people claiming to be officers link

• Command staff doesn't know or care how many citations each officer writes
• Others claim their sergeant kept track and let them know regularly
• I know MANY. Not all, but most do keep loose track of what they write. Hell, I was just talking to one of my buddies yesterday and he was telling me that he must have been in an odd mood on Sunday. Told me he wrote more "warnings" than ever before. Said he usually writes between 12-16 cites a shift with maybe 1 or 2 warnings, but on Sunday he ended up writing 6 warnings.
  • Besides, the brass likes to hear good production of cites by motors and traffic cops. Tells them that they are doing their assigned duties.
• Originally Posted by Patrick Aherne - As an example, I HATE DUI checkpoints. They are a waste of time and produce almost no arrests, compared to putting me and partner in a car and letting us work dui patrol. Therefore, I never signed up for dui ceckpoints, but would always sign up for dui strike teams of roving patrol.s
• I think DUI checkpoints are both a waste of taxpayer money and a violation of citizen civil rights. Fresno PD uses them as publicity stunts and arrest more people for no license and other charges than they do for DUI. I agree, send more cops out on the street looking for DUIs. Besides, they might catch a burglar or two while they are out there. Good old fashioned police work, ie working your beat, always worked for me. I arrested my share of DUIs, and wrote enough traffic cites to keep the Sergeants happy by just doing patrol. I always was looking for 11550's, burglars and violent crimes as a priority. The DUIs and traffic cites just popped up.
• BTW, my Sergeant counseled me one night because I hadn't written a cite all month. I went out on the graveyard shift and wrote 76 parking citations for cars parked on the wrong side of the road, a city ordinance violation. By 0800, after I went off shift, the Chief's phone was ringing off the hook. Apparently, some city councilmen and other influential folks had been ignoring the ordinance.

From Ride Along With CHP

• I did a ride along with CHP in the South LA division. Patrolling the 405 was cool. The officer knows how to drive like no other. Learned a lot about the department.
  • Yeah its true all we did was write some tickets and take accident reports. We gave out 2 warning and 5 tickets. Picked up a gym bag left in the number 1 lane....the traffic break was cool. The freedom was the best part. we did not have to stay on the 405 the whole time. We drove down the 91, the 110, and the 710. I would not want to patrol the LA area for my whole career. I would probably transfer some place where it was less freeway more small highway/small city area. I would imagine those areas have more diversity in the call volume

According to this article

• Patrol officer in small town may receive one complaint a day
• detectives may have 20 active cases at a time
• patrol officer in small town might get 5 or 6 calls a day

This site claims:

• 41,000,000 traffic tickets are given each year, over 100,000 per day
• One out of 6 drivers will get a ticket this year
• A ticket raises average insurance by $900 over three years
• 95% of drivers just pay their ticket
• The average traffic cop will cost a city about $75,000 per year in salary, bonuses, and benefits. This same police officer will make the city an average of $200,000 per year in traffic ticket fines! That's one hell of a profit margin.

DeKalb County Georgia officers started writing less tickets to protest county government cuts. The numebr dropped by 30%, costing the county $2,000,000 link

• Another story about DeKalb: WGCL-TV reports that DeKalb County Police officers are told during roll call that they must issue 65 citations a month and make 25 arrests. Those on traffic duty must issue a minimum of 150 citations a month and make 11 arrests. Unlike in many states, ticket quotas are not illegal in Georgia.

According to the Berkeley police

• Q. Are police officers required to write so many traffic citations per day or do they have a quota?
  • Quotas are prohibited by law, officers issue citations based a number of factors, including; current road conditions, traffic complaints, collision history, location (School Zone, Downtown area, etc.), speed surveys, and traffic volumes.

Michigan: Community Protest Torpedoes Ticket Quota

• A planned protest at the Redford Township, Michigan police station helped kill a ticket quota that officials had adopted last month. Since mid-July, township police had been handed one hour’s worth of overtime pay for every two traffic citations issued. This meant that a typical officer could pocket up to $21 in cash for each individual ticket issued. The Mary Church Terrell Council for Community Empowerment now plans to go after the ticket quota in Dearborn Heights. The Detroit suburbs of Livonia, Oak Park, Rochester and Trenton also depend on numeric ticket quotas for police.

$2 million reward to officers forced to write a certain quota of tickets

• The veteran motorcycle officers alleged in a lawsuit that they were punished with bogus performance reviews, threats of reassignment and other forms of harassment after objecting to demands from commanding officers that they write a certain number of tickets each day. By Andrew Blankstein and Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times... link

Texas: Police Chief Faces Ticket Quota Charges

• The police chief in Red Oak, Texas faces charges that he imposed an illegal traffic ticket quota. The city council last week suspended Police Chief Donald “Red” Fullerton and Deputy Chief Stephen Anderson pending the conclusion of an outside investigation by a retired Fort Worth policeman. Evidence shows that the city’s police force began issuing a traffic ticket every twenty minutes during a severe budget shortfall. The police chief budgeted $3.4 million in citation revenue, which required each officer to issue 320 tickets a month. A bulletin board in the police station displayed how each officer measured up.

Ticket quotas are nothing new for the Washington State Police. In 2002, a public records request by the Washington Seatbelt Coalition uncovered a confidential "Traffic Safety Blitz" memo urging a specific number of tickets issued each hour.

"During the emphasis, officers shall contact a minimum of three (3) violators per working hour with the desired outcome of 3 occupant protection/speed infractions per hour," Deputy State Patrol Chief Lowell M. Porter wrote. "Officers failing to meet the minimum requirement may be replaced." link

Florida highway patrol tickets http://blog.motorists.org/florida-highway-patrol-ticket-quota/

Questions:

• How many employees does CHP have? Answer: over 11,000