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As leaders assess first two months, Operation Rio Grande rates well with Utah voters

“Come down there, join us, be there, see what’s happening,” said House Speaker Greg Hughes. “I think you will be pleased with the work that’s going on right now.”

A recent statewide Salt Lake Tribune-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll indicates nearly two-thirds of registered voters believe the effort has been at least somewhat effective in reducing lawlessness near the 210 S. Rio Grande St. shelter.

Conducted Oct. 10-13 by Dan Jones & Associates, the poll found that 12 percent thought it had been “very effective” and 51 percent said it was “somewhat” so. Fifteen percent said it was “not very effective,” and only 6 percent felt it had been “not at all effective.