"This (legislation) isn't going to change any of our traffic enforcement efforts in terms of how we patrol the city. If we exceed the 35 percent revenue threshold the city will turn the excess over to the state. Nothing is going to change," Foristell Police Chief Doug Johnson said Wednesday. The legislation in question was sponsored by State Sen. John Griesheimer, R-Washington, who has called Foristell the state's worst example of a speed trap and "worse than an embarrassment to the state." Griesheimer's amendment, inserted into SB58, lowers the cap on annual revenue that fourth class cities with populations less than 1,000 persons can receive from traffic fines from 45 percent to 35 percent of their annual receipts from traffic tickets. Revenue exceeding that cap would have to be sent to the Department of Revenue to be distributed to the state school system, according to the law. The cap only applies to fines for traffic violations on interstate highways. "Sen. Griesheimer has a personal vendetta against us and doesn't have a problem saying so. Apparently it is because his son was issued a citation for rolling through a stop sign. I guess he feels that we should not have cited him for breaking the law," Johnson said. Griesheimer doesn't deny he has a vendetta against Foristell. He claims that the police department has also "harassed" his brother-in-law on several occasions. In an interview last October he said that Foristell gives a black eye to every small town in the state and pledged to "put their sorry keisters out of business." "I've been after them for years," Griesheimer said in an interview Monday. "I hate speed traps especially when little towns use them as a revenue generator to bankroll their city. Little towns (police departments) have no business out on interstates," he said. Griesheimer points to the fact that Foristell has a population of 350 and a police force of 15 full-and part-time officers as evidence that they are too focused on traffic enforcement and the resultant revenue traffic tickets generate. The National Motorists Association listed Foristell on its Web site as the state of Missouri's No. 1 speed trap last year. "I've received an e-mail from a former officer saying they had (traffic citation) quotas that had to be met," Griesheimer added. Johnson denies that his department uses traffic ticket quotas to help generate revenue for the city. He said that his department issued 4,200 citations last year including warnings. He said a little over 2,000 were for speeding. He said the breakdown were as follows: 6 to 9 mph over the speed limit, five tickets; 10 to 15 mph over speed limit, 1,240 tickets; 16 to 20 mph over speed limit, 512 tickets; 21 to 25 mph over the speed limit, 130 tickets; and 26 and higher mph over the speed limit, 40 tickets. "My definition of a speed trap is when an officer writes citations at 3 to 5 mph over the speed limit. We're not doing that. If Sen. Griesheimer wants to a pass a law increasing the speed limit to 70 mph on a highway, people are still going to drive 80 mph. We're doing our job and enforcing the law and I'm convinced we're saving lives," Johnson added.