Further demands for help from the east of Jordan River Trail

Salt Lake City – Salt Lake City's police action against drugs and homelessness near the Jordan River Trail moved the problems to the east.

Nowadays Salt Lake City, Brian Redd, said his department received more help for Ball Park and Liberty Park.

Redd informed the homeless board member in Utah, he does not believe that the problem is absolutely related to homelessness. Rather, he said that more people travel from different areas to get access to drugs.

“I do not suggest that we have no problem with homelessness,” he said, “but I suggest that the drugs are so powerful that they bring people, even the places to life, right up to the streets.”

“That's why they suddenly see more people in summer,” he said. And he expects the problem to deteriorate.

“We will have more burglaries and thefts that have thefts in residential areas,” he said.

The additional patrols and the attention of the police occurred after the members of the city council of Salt Lake stated last November that they supported the financial effects of the hiring and training of other officials especially for the Jordan River Trail area.

Go forward from here

Redd said there are a few more things that can be done to solve the problems of drugs and crime in Salt Lake City, along the Jordan River Trail and beyond.

“How do we solve that? Well, part of it is the attitude with other parts of the punitive justice system: with the office, with the dishes, prison and the treatment,” he said.

And he said that despite the shift in crime from the Jordan River Trail to the baseball district and the Liberty Park areas, his department against drugs and homelessness works.

On April 19, the Salt Lake City police authority announced that it had arrested 33 crimes, 49 arrests in offenses and 45 quotations mainly for drug utensils and violation.