Salt Lake City is moving forward with the second phase of its violent crime plan, which will use “creative thinking” to help make violent crime hot spots safer, officials announced Wednesday.
. Its first phase involved boosting Salt Lake City police presence in pockets of the city where data indicated crime was most likely to happen.
This plan in particular targets “violent street crime,” including murder, robbery and non-family-violence-related aggravated assault, UTSA criminologist Michael R. Smith said. Over the past few days, the university researchers have been hosting trainings that focus on what they call “problem-oriented, place-based policing.” The strategy aims to help areas identified as crime hot spots come off that list, Smith said, and alleviate long-standing problems in places that experience high rates of violent crime.
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