Writers may be limited to one letter every 30 days. Open letters, letters to third parties and poetry are not considered. Letters from people living outside the Chronicle's circulation area usually are not considered. Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff Aiken County Sheriff Howard Sellers deserved better than to have the legs shot out from under him by the County Council just as he was about to publicly announce the formation of a first-ever traffic enforcement division. If this was all there was to the grant, the Council ought to be miffed.
Nobody likes arrest quotas because they tempt some law-enforcers to trump up charges.
The figures are determined by statistical data from past years, and can be adjusted up or down, depending on a host of factors. For years Aiken Countians have demanded tougher traffic enforcement. This grant will provide it, and Sellers worked three years to get it. Sellers could have answered Council's objections if they'd been raised sooner. The grant's terms have been available for months.