He calls police usually two or three times a day. He kicks at least four people off his lawn each morning. He finds about six needles left behind in the cracks of the sidewalk as he closes his front gate at night.
These grim numbers are how Dru Steadman measures crime in his neighborhood on the west side of Salt Lake City. And, by his count, it’s getting a lot worse.
The resident and business owner attended the Wednesday unveiling of what he hopes might be the solution: a defunct fast foot restaurant being converted into a pop-up patrol station.