Salt Lake City police say they need more money to pay for overtime in the city's enforcement blitz on illegal homeless camps.
Members of the Salt Lake City Police Department stand by as people camping along 500 West pack up their belongings before the city's Rapid Intervention Team moves in to clean the area, Feb. 2, 2023. Police want more funding to enforce a clampdown on illegal camps.If Salt Lake City wants to continue its enforcement blitz against illegal homeless camps, police say they’ll need some extra dough to make it happen.
“Due to the sheer volume of calls for service and current staffing levels,” city staffers wrote to the council, “the department does not have the available resources that can be dedicated for mitigation services without the use of overtime.” Since mid-October, a department spokesperson said, police have made 60 felony arrests and written 152 misdemeanor citations as part of the crackdown.
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