The Salt Lake City police reduce the crime along the Jordan River Trail and move some to the east side

The data show that increased police campaigns on the west side drive problems towards the east in the city.

After the enforcement of the Salt Lake City police started at the beginning of April, the data began to confirm the data that the focus is on some drug trafficking and illegal camps to the east.

The city's new chief of police, which took part in a number of hearing sessions with community groups, shared newly created cards that show that an increase in police patrols along the Jordan River Trail in the Fairpark district – including the closure of part of the way – has postponed some concerns from west to the east.

At a meeting of the Utah homeless service board last week, Chief Brian Redd said that calls for the service dropped more than a week into increased operation on the River Trail, but other hotspots were active or appeared in other parts of the city.

The police -generated heat cards Redd shows yellow -colored areas in which the officials react to further calls for a service that is specifically related to homelessness.

“They stayed in the North Temple, but they can see in Liberty Park and the Baseballpark District that they can see how the yellow forms in this area,” Redd told the members of the panel. “So we saw movement of people who went on the east side.”

Follow the problems

The cards seem to confirm what many say that it is a permanent reality in the city police, illegal camps and the crime, which can sometimes follow: Without long -term solutions, those who target the police only seem to switch to other pockets to avoid enforcement.

This year the police operations are recorded when state officials keep an eye on the law enforcement authorities in Utah's capital after the leaders had asked the Mayor Erin Mendenhall to develop a new public security plan for the city.

Redd joined the police department after the mayor published its plan in mid -January. He replaced Chief Mike Brown, who resigned at the behest of the mayor.

In the last week of March and the first two days in April, police heat cards along the river and the nearby Redwood Road and along the north temple showed near 800 west. In the period from April 3 to 16, several areas had been cleared on the way, North Temple remained active and the locations in Liberty Park and the baseball stadium generated significantly more calls.

“We can reduce crime with the officials and reduce the demands for duty, but we have a movement of individuals,” admitted Redd. “So we temporarily give an area relief and then people move to another area.”

Redd said that his officers met – and arrested – some of the same people on the east side they have along the way.

Signs of ebb and river

In the last two weeks of April, after the department diverted officials and other resources to Liberty Park, those in Herman Franks Park, south of Liberty, rose homelessness in connection with homelessness. in Richmond Park; And in the heart of the city center. There are also problems in the North Temple, especially at its crossings with 800 West and Redwood Road.

Redd and others argue that combating the “leaf blower effect” requires better cooperation with other parts of the criminal justice system, in particular judges and civil servants of the district prison to keep repeated criminals for illegal camping or drug-related offenses longer.

“Much of it doesn't work if we don't keep these people,” said Casey Cameron, Executive Director of the Utah Department of Workforce Services, “and have the opportunity to do interventions.”

Since March since March since March, Redd has also underlined the need for more shelter and adds that he turned home to the service providers on the street and insure the homeless people to dedicate more beds for the people referred by the police.

The new boss has also commissioned donors to support homeless providers instead of giving supplies in parks and on streets.

Driven by drugs?

As part of his developing attitude, the boss has also determined a critical trend when spring benefits summer: civil servants find more people who are with lights from homeless camps who live themselves and indicate that they visit the camps to find drugs.

This trend and other indications also indicate a core of the “high usage” among the city's homeless population, which repeatedly cycles in prison and from other programs, including drugitation of drugs. Officials have often pointed out that this relatively small population is difficult to reach, but is excessively expensive.

Wayne Niederhauser, the coordinator of the homelessness of the state, asks lawyers to support programs, not only treat people for dependencies, but also offer people with living space and employment resources.

“If we can do something as a board,” said Niederhauser last week, “incentives to support the restoration-Damit you become clean and sober, but you have the support and maintenance to keep you in this position, which takes up continuous follow-up.”

At the moment Redd says lawyers and parishioners that he expects homelessness and drug calls when the temperatures rise and the residents spend more time outside.