Falls Church City Manager Dan McKeever is no friend to his own police force. Recently he has directed the police to waste their time tracking down and investigating every person seen carrying a firearm openly. As if they didn't have enough to do already, now they must waste their valuable time harassing law abiding citizens exercising their Second Amendment freedoms.

But if that wasn't enough, now McKeever wants to demote officers who don't write enough tickets.

Recently, members of the Falls Church police union went public with their complaint that every patrol officer is required to write an average of three traffic tickets or make three arrests every 12-hour shift. Failure to make the quotas -- accumulating a minimum of 400 per year -- results in an automatic 90-day probation period with no pay raise during that period. The officers face possible demotion or dismissal if numbers aren't promptly brought up to, er, speed.

The high ticket number discourages officers from handling more time-consuming arrests, such as drunken driving, when an improper registration ticket counts as much as a felony drug arrest, the union said. Officers who take time off, whether for vacation, injury or military leave, must still reach that same flat number without consideration for their missed time, the union said.

It's nice to know that Falls Church is overlooking petty crime like drunk driving and drug dealing in favor of more profitable offenses such as speeding and red light running.