Councilman Mark Kindred, who is challenging incumbent Mayor Cherie Wood, led a discussion Wednesday, including a presentation of crime statistics from a state official.
Kindred said he reached out to the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification (BCI) for help identifying where the city stands after he sought crime data from the administration over two months ago and “hadn’t heard anything back.”
Wood, who has been a fierce critic of the Salt Lake County mandated shelter site, has made crime reduction part of her pitch for a third term.
BCI’s Mandy Biesinger presented to the city council statistics from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) indicating a decrease in crimes against persons from 2009 to 2015.