SALT LAKE CITY — Brian Redd still remembers the “unacceptable” scene he came across when he toured the Jordan River shortly after he was sworn in as Salt Lake City’s new police chief in March.

“We had children walking through drug deals. (There were) needles and all kinds of things going on,” he said, recalling that trip several months later. “It had gone past homelessness to a very criminogenic location.”

However, he says the data shows how things are starting to change.

Overall crime continues to slide in Utah’s capital city after policing changes were implemented through a new public safety plan earlier this year . A little more than 11,500 different crimes have been reported this year, as of Sunday, which is a 4.6% decrease from the same point last year and 11.5% decrease from the t

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