Operation Rio Grande: They are arresting people right and left, tossing many of them in jail. The effort to bring law to the lawless in the homeless district of Salt Lake City is off to a fast start.
I have wondered why solving the crime situation in the homeless district is such a problem. You simply out man the criminals. You station so many officers there, the criminals have no elbow room to commit their crimes.
This approach is similar to Operation Rio Grande, but might be a little different. It seems if you had stationed enough officers -- and not undercover -- there would not be many arrests. It seems the criminals wouldn't be committing their crimes if they knew officers were within sight, watching their every move.
Whatever Operation Rio Grande is, as far as how they are going about arresting people, it might be worthwhile. Arresting the criminals gets them off the street and away from the rest of the homeless. I don't know enough about Operation Rio Grande to fully have a feel for whether I altogether like it. I understand 160 officers were involved. With that many, it seems you would have saturated the area so completely that there would be no wiggling room for criminals to commit their crimes, but they made 87 arrests that first day.
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