I will feel elated if this brainstorming letter of mine to Utah House Majority Leader Mike Schultz helps toward significantly reducing the presence of illicit-drug dealers here in the Beehive State:
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From: "John McMillan" <mcmillanj@att.net>
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Sent: Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 7:21 PM
Subject: 12-14-23 How to Deter UT Illicit-Drug Trafficking
December 14, 2023
Dear Utah State Legislature House Of Representatives Majority Leader Mike Schultz,
Thank you again for your kind December 6, 2023, written invitation that I send you additional concerns of mine that might be helpful to your very influential State Government of Utah governing body in Salt Lake City.
The illicit-drug trafficking crisis in Utah of today is painfully apparent to any law-abiding vigilant pedestrian in downtown Salt Lake City (myself, for instance) who observes a sudden and mysteriously secretive "handoff" to another person on or near the outdoor platform of a Utah Transit Authority train station.
Many of the mysterious "handoffs" that I myself witness while I am waiting as a passenger for a UTA train in Salt Lake City are allegedly occurring on the outdoor platform of the very busy UTA Courthouse train stop at 450 South Main Street here in our state-capital city for Utah.
(The unsavory nature of that specific area is also highlighted by the presence of 20 or more homeless persons, many of them apparently drug addicts, who are nearly always situated or "camped" directly across the street from and west of that UTA Courthouse station.)
I myself as a private citizen do not call the UTA Police or the Salt Lake City Police to report possible illicit- drug trafficking "handoff" crime evidence unless I feel sure that I actually saw what appears to be an illicit foreign substance other than possibly tobacco inside the plastic bag being handed off by one male person to another on or near a UTA train stop.
I am very hopeful that the Utah State Legislature House of Representatives under your enlightened leadership will consider:
----Approving a new state law that permanently prohibits or revokes "Permanent Resident Status" or temporary residence status in Utah to anyone who has been convicted in a court of law of being an illicit-drug dealer in Utah who had specifically sold illicit drugs to one or more Utah residents or visitors to Utah at any time during the initial 12-month period after that individual had moved to Utah as a visitor or temporary resident----or at any time within a five-year period after that individual had officially become a permanent resident of Utah.
This proposed new state law would help to encourage the applicable respective convicted drug dealers in Utah to relocate to another U S. state or foreign nation as soon as possible after they had completed their full state-prison sentence in Utah.
---Approving a new state law that authorizes court-ordered closure of specific businesses in Utah that knowingly employ illicit-drug dealers or that are identified through investigation as themselves knowingly acting as spawning grounds for or financiers of or corporate sponsors of illicit- drug trafficking in Utah.
---Approving a new state law that authorizes electronic surveillance of any person released from prison in Utah who had been most recently convicted of selling illicit drugs or selling "medical marijuana" in an illegal manner or illegal context to another person in Utah.
---Approving an automatic criminal-law penalty on any illicit- drug trafficking "dealer" in Utah who knowingly sells an illicit drug to a person that the drug dealer has reason to believe will be fatally injurious to that individual or is contaminated with additional foreign substances that are significantly harmful to the medical health of the individual consuming that illicit drug.
---Approving the use in a court of law in Utah of results from respective lie-detector tests that are administered by a law-enforcement agency in Utah on persons suspected of being drug dealers involved in illicit-drug trafficking here in Utah.
---Increasing criminal-law penalties imposed on any person who in this U.S. state of Utah sells or "gives" or distributes one or more illicit drugs to one or more persons under age 21. An automatic prison sentence of a cited minimal duration or longer could be automatically imposed here in Utah on anyone who sells or gives or distributes illicit drugs to one or more persons under age 21.
---Establishing a "'Catch the Drug Dealers' Undercover Agents Fund", with money from that fund to be distributed to a variety of law enforcement agencies in Utah by the Utah Department of Public Safety.
Any municipal police department or Sheriff's office or state agency in Utah might be authorized to apply for financial assistance from that fund that could be used for hiring, training, and generously compensating Special Undercover Agents (possibly officers normally residing in another county in Utah, which would protect their undercover-agent status) who could help identify a higher percentage of all of the illicit-drug dealers of Utah than have been identified so far.
This special fund could be especially helpful to law- enforcement agencies in small towns or rural areas of Utah. The fund could thereby help supplement and expand upon the scope of illicit-drug trafficking-related investigations being pursued by the "United States Drug Enforcement Administration" office in Salt Lake City, Utah.
----Providing government funds for hiring of drug- sniffing dogs to be employed by UTA and Salt Lake City Police or other police departments at critical locations such as the heavily trafficked outdoor platform of the UTA Courthouse Station in Salt Lake City and directly across the street either to the east or to the west of that station.
This additional deployment of drug-sniffing dogs could be especially invaluable and very strategic in the Courthouse train station area in downtown Salt Lake City. Only a matter of yards to the east of that UTA train station and within a block or two from that UTA station, the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office and Utah State District Courthouse are each located.
----Providing funds for the hiring of numerous illicit- drug investigation officers for UTA, for contexts that include any circumstance in which a UTA passenger carries marijuana or any other illicit drug into a UTA train or UTA bus or any circumstance in which a person standing or sitting outdoors on a UTA property is involved in an illicit-drug sale or "handoff" or possession or consumption of an illicit drug.
---Providing funds for monitoring by special agents of the Utah State Tax Commission state agency of any factual evidence that a person filing an income tax return in Utah has ties to illicit-drug ttafficking. That information could be shared with law-enforcement agencies in Utah, which could then note in a confidential computerized record accessible to all law enforcement agencies of Utah that the cited individual is a "Suspected Illicit-Drug Trafficking Perpetrator".
That crucial information could then be invaluable to any and all state and local law-enforcement agencies in Utah.
----Requiring that any and all businesses in the current "legal medical marijuana industry" here in Utah must pay a special local tax or special state tax that is specifically designated for use by law enforcement agencies and public schools in sponsoring public education programs about the harmful effects of illicit-drug consumption and in promotion of law-abiding organizations for youths, deterring illicit- drug sales, deterring illicit- drug possession, and deterring illicit-drug consumption in that city or county, or anywhere in Utah.
Utah State House Majority Leader Schultz, I hope that some or several of these ideas prove to be helpful to you and your admirably anti-illicit-drug-minded colleagues in the Utah House of Representatives.
I might add, Majority Leader Schultz, that I feel sure that my LDS member grandparents in Utah, Mr. and Mrs. Parley and Alice Mae Pugh (her maiden name) McMillan of Murray, would have been very pleased to learn that the Utah House in 2024 will approve legislation to significantly reduce the presence of illicit-drug dealers throughout our state.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
former Texas DPS full-time staff member and permanent Utahn resident (ever since January 1, 2023) John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.
My cell phone number ever since August 2019: (512) 993-7305.
My home phone number: (801) 355-0850.
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