After a decline in the amount of citations for cell phone-related distracted driving in the District in 2009, police are back on track to smash the ticketing record this year. WTOP reports that D.C. police have issued 11,088 of the $100 citations so far this year — that’s almost as many as they did in all of 2008, when a record 11,904 citations were handed out. According to projections, the total number of talking and texting tickets could top 14,700 in 2010. After several consecutive years of increases, 2009 saw a dip in cell citations for the first time since the cell phone laws went on the books in the District in 2005. Obviously, greater enforcement — including traffic checkpoints which look for people who are talking or texting behind the wheel — and many people’s continued indifference to the law are proving to be a much more effective combination this year.