City managers may establish traffic revenue quotas as part of evaluating the court's performance.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not specified
• D. Depends on jurisdiction

Answer: (B)

Evaluating a court should be based on how well it delivers fair, timely, and accessible justice. Tying the court’s performance to traffic revenue quotas would create incentives to generate more fines rather than to ensure due process, impartiality, and quality judgments. That undermines judicial independence and can compromise fairness for defendants. In practice, performance measures for courts focus on metrics like case clearance rates, time to disposition, backlog, accuracy, and access to justice—not on revenue targets. Revenue from fines is tied to enforcement policies, not a judgment about the court’s performance. So the statement is not correct.