The Salt Lake City Police Department has quietly lowered its standards for 'Priority 1' response times, despite hiring more officers. From 2021 to 2022, that time was 11 minutes and 58 seconds.
The department has also quietly lowered their standards for Priority 1 response times, despite hiring more officers.
Some of those officers blamed Brown for their departure. In 2020, the union representing SLCPD officers took a “vote of no confidence” in the chief.Lowering the bar “We do not believe your reporting on this matter is accurate,” Weisberg wrote. “This is offensive to our officers who are out every day working to respond to calls for service as quickly and as safely as possible.”“Where do you get the 4-5 minutes?” he asked. “Can you justify where you have this? On tape?”“We’re looking at Priority 1’s in March under eight minutes, but I think we’d like to see them closer to five – even four minutes. That’s a good response time,” Horrocks said.
“That is not a politically directed , but it was arrived at by the chief,” Mendenhall said. “We’ve turned the tide in Salt Lake City, but we are far from done.”Chris Bertram, the former deputy chief of Unified Police Department, said he was disappointed to watch SLCPD backpedal from its previous statements.
Brown and Mendenhall both talked about how Utah’s capitol city faces unique challenges. They also noted how “violent crime” is down 3.6 percent over the past year. Matt Evans, a retired SLCPD sergeant, said the city’s high crime and inability to respond quickly caused him to leave.
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