Morrison Police Chief allegedly being fired for not writing enough tickets

KDVR aired their story last night in which they interviewed Chief Mumma and discussed documentation they obtained. Video interview below:

Morrison Police Chief forced to retire: Not enough traffic tickets
Rob Low and Carisa Scott, KDVR | August 24, 2020

MORRISON, Colo. (KDVR) — Even the police chief in the town of Morrison learned you can’t fight city hall.

George Mumma Jr. accepted retirement Aug. 12 after meeting with Town Manager Kara Winters, who according to Mumma complained his officers weren’t aggressive enough in writing traffic tickets.

“It was made clear that our budget was based on traffic revenue,” Mumma told the Problem Solvers in an exclusive interview.

As usual, I am seeing several comments on social media from people saying that Morrison's practices are why they avoid doing business in Morrison as a way to protest/not support the town.

Here's why avoiding doing business in Morrison isn't working:

As mentioned when we brought this firing to light, mymountaintown.com/forum/139-the-campfir...iting-enough-tickets , the Canyon Courier reported that over half of the Town of Morrison's budget comes from citation revenues and court fees, less than half from sales tax. Just avoiding spending money in the town isn't cutting it, especially for everyone who lives off the 285 corridor because there's not a convenient way for those residents to get home other than clogging Evergreen passing through if they were to start detouring up I-70.

There needs to be more pressure put on the town government to change their mindset of relying on this revenue stream. Mumma was trying to move that direction and this was their response; it's unacceptable. Please send letters of support for Chief Mumma and the positive changes he was making for the Morrison Police Department. The officers there respected him and deeply appreciated the direction he was taking them to improve their reputation and service to their community in focusing on my crime investigation than ticket writing.

Instead of avoiding doing business in the town, if we patronized them more and strictly obeyed the law while in town, their revenue would flip-flop. It's not feasible to only implement a public grassroots campaign to gut Morrison's ticket revenue by getting EVERYONE (especially out-of-town visitors who don't know what the history of the area is and current political events) to strictly obey the laws so there can't be any tickets written, but if we led the way with positive change, it's less detrimental to those who live and work there.

I challenge you to join me.