SALT LAKE CITY — Arrests and citations are up “significantly” in Salt Lake City so far in 2025, the capital city’s chief of police told state lawmakers on Wednesday.

Chief Brian Redd, who was sworn in earlier this year, spoke to the Legislature’s Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee just over a month after his department entered into a joint policing agreement with the state at the behest of lawmakers who want to see the city take a harder line on policing.

Total crime in Salt Lake City has fallen this year compared with the three-year average, Redd said, but some violent crime such as rape, robbery and aggravated assault has increased. The chief said law enforcement is “really concerned about” that rise, but he believes some of it can be attributed to increased policin

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