How did SLC turn into a crime-ridden cesspool? I thought the Mormons were good at keeping the riff raff away?
Mormons are now a minority in Salt Lake city.
Started after the Olympics they held. They over promised and business buffed up. A year later downtown was a ghost town. Everyone we talked to when we spent a few days whined about it.
12 years later they elected Romney, the architect of the Olympics. Idiots.
I have lived in SLC for the past 17 years (not Mormon).
Crime here was really low until the Mormon Church in its ultimate wisdom decided to rescue gang kids from LA by bringing young homeless gang teens to Salt Lake in order to turn them into good upstanding citizens. This was in the 90s.
Guess how that worked out? Take kids that know the gang and drug business, import them into a city where there is none – they get on the phone call their contacts and presto instant drug and crime problem.
Salt Lake City itself is very liberal, the rest of the state not so much