My State Courthouse-area Outdoor Illicit Drugs Crisis Report Today to Salt Lake City Police Department Lt. Todd Mitchell

 I hope this report of mine today to Salt Lake City Police Department Lieutenant Todd Mitchell helps to promote dialogue on how to solve the outdoor  illicit drug activities crisis along South Main Street near the Utah State District Courthouse building here in downtown Salt Lake City:

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Sent: Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 7:33 PM

Subject: Illicit-drug report to me today by Downtown Alliance rep

February 28, 2024

Dear Salt Lake City Police Department Lt. Todd Mitchell,

Shortly after 3 p.m. today (Wednesday, Feb. 28) along Main Street near 400 South and near 300 South, respectively, I had two separate brief outdoor conversations with two very polite and idealistic younger gentlemen who wore Downtown Alliance uniforms.

Based on my conversations outdoors  today with those two  gentlemen---one of them a  tall black-haired Downtown Alliance male employee   named "Creed" and the other  a blond-haired white male Downtown Alliance employee----I was informed today (and the quotes below are only  approximate quotes and rough notes  from memory, since I was not taking notes on this) that:

----the Downtown Alliance "does not work with the City of Salt Lake City (municipal government)" and instead serves and is employed by  a Downtown businesses group that seeks to "improve the downtown business scene."

(I myself, downtown resident John K. McMillan,  find it very surprising that possibly  the Downtown Alliance here in Salt Lake City  does not have any official ongoing contact liaison with the Salt Lake City Police Department or Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, and possibly  does have any official Downtown Alliance  representative who  gives regular in-person  reports to the Salt Lake City Council at Council meetings.)

----The very dangerous and often lethal illicit drugs "Spice" (exact quote) and "Fentanyl" (exact quote) are frequently consumed by homeless persons lying or standing  on the grass directly across the street from and a matter of feet west of the outdoor platform of the Utah Transit Authority  Courthouse train station---a platform on which UTA passengers wait for incoming southbound or northbound trains. That train station is  located at 450 South Main Street  here in downtown Salt Lake City.

Often the homeless persons who consume "Spice" or "Fentanyl" outdoors across the street from the western side of the Courthouse train station experience major  harmful side effects from those dangerous illicit drugs and fall  unconscious outdoors on or near  a grassy area bordering South Main Street from the west.

-----Even if Salt Lake City Police were to arrest homeless persons at that outdoor downtown location for the alleged purchase or possession of or possible trafficking of an illicit drug, "those  homeless persons would get  out of jail very quickly and go right back to their outdoor illicit- drug activities across the street from the UTA Courthouse train station".

-----"We have tried to lobby for providing drug- addiction treatment programs for drug-addicted homeless persons from downtown who get arrested and are being held inside local jail facilities," Creed stated.  "But so far we have not been successful at achieving that goal."

-----"The other major illicit-drug crisis very close to the UTA Courthouse train station involves individuals who shoot up with heroin (exact quote) along 400 South near or at 200 (?) West, a few blocks northwest of the UTA Courthouse train stop."

----"I would estimate that  65 percent  (exact quote) of the homeless persons here in downtown Salt Lake City are illicit-drug addicts, and 35 percent of the homeless persons here in the  downtown area  are not drug addicts," Creed stated.

---"We try to focus on helping the homeless persons who ARE motivated to improve their own living conditions. Many of the homeless persons we speak with show no interest in improving their own living conditions," Creed stated.

---"It is painful for me to talk with  so many homeless persons who are suffering here in downtown Salt Lake City," Creed stated.

Lt. Mitchell, I hope this report from me during my leisuretime is helpful to you and your other noble Salt Lake City Police Department colleagues.

Sincerely and Best Wishes,

former Texas DPS full-time employee and current permanent Utah resident John Kevin McMillan, 535 South 200 East, Apt. 912, Ninth Floor, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

My Date of Birth: 4-27-1957. I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.

My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.

My home phone: (801) 355-0850.

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