SLCPD announces changes to address increase in crime
SLCPD announces changes to address increase in crime
and last updated 2020-12-23 19:14:12-05
SALT LAKE CTY â The Salt Lake City Police Department will undergo some organizational changes and take other steps to address an increase in crime, the department announced Wednesday.
The changes are being implemented due to an uptick in property and violent crimes in Utah s capital city.
Next month, SLCPD will reassign 20 officers who ve been working in other specialized areas to supplement the department s patrol force. By adding more officers to patrol duty, the department hopes to improve response time for service calls and provide more proactive, visible community-based policing throughout the city.
Salt Lake City police putting more officers on patrol to fight the rise in crime
The department hopes the extra officers will reduce 911 response times.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Police gather evidence on State Street in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. The department announced Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, that it was adding more patrol officers to help fight the increase in violent and property crimes in the city in 2020. | Updated: Dec. 24, 2020, 2:34 a.m.
The Salt Lake City Police Department is adding nearly 40 new officers to patrol shifts to try to curb the increase in violent and property crime.
One man is dead and two others injured in shooting near Smith s Ballpark in Salt Lake City
One man killed and two other people injured in shooting in Salt Lake City s Ballpark neighborhood.
and last updated 2020-12-23 18:56:14-05
SALT LAKE CITY â One man is dead and two others injured after a shooting in Salt Lake City.
Just after midnight Tuesday, police were called to the area just south of Smithâs Ballpark.
37-year-old Salesi Katoa was found dead in a car on Kensington Avenue, which is around 1500 South, and Main Street.
A 29-year-old man was found not far away with a gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
In 2010 Gainesville Police Officer Timothy Durst released his dog Grady on 10-year-old Bryce Bates after spotting him riding his bike.
Durst was responding to a burglary-in-progress call that turned out to be false. Bryce saw the police car coming toward him, jumped off his bike and ran for home. Grady caught the boy at his front door, biting and scratching him.
Residents of all racial backgrounds quietly spoke with GPD Chief Tony Jones about the incident, but a public outcry was never raised.
Now, a decade later, the reaction would likely be different if a similar incident happened.
In the aftermath of 2020’s high profile deaths of Black people, at the hands and knees of police, a drive is on for law enforcement to reform policies on chokeholds, no-knock warrants and other procedures.
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University of Utah Police Chief Rodney Chatman took over the department in January, and many were hopeful he’d help address campus safety concerns and rebuild student trust in the wake of Lauren McCluskey’s murder.
University of Utah Police Chief Rodney Chatman has been placed on administrative leave, according to the school’s communications director Chris Nelson.
Chatman was hired in January, taking over the department as it faced criticism for its handling of the on-campus murder of 21-year-old student athlete Lauren McCluskey in October 2018.
While university officials initially did not offer details about the reasons behind Chatman’s leave, the U’s Chief Safety Officer Marlon Lynch sent a statement late Friday evening which said it was because Chatman was being investigated by the Utah State Attorney General’s Office on allegations Chatman “may have violated certain guidelines that are also criminal offenses.”