Salt Lake's Ballpark neighborhood crime continues to rise as leaders, businesses look for solutions
SALT LAKE CITY — Crime in the Ballpark neighborhood has reached crisis-mode, with the homicide rate in the area nine times higher than Salt Lake City as a whole, according to data from the Ballpark Community Council.Lockhart Enterprises has been open since the 1970s and seen quite a bit of change during that time.
Crime nearby is so bad that Marsh said it has impacted the number of customers Lockhart regularly sees. The chair of the Ballpark Community Council, Amy J. Hawkins, has called the neighborhood home since 2013.Since 2018, Hawkins says the council has been keeping track of publicly available data when it comes to crime in the neighborhood. They use things like a map which details crimes that have happened in the area in the last four years, including the domestic violence-related homicide that took place overnight.
Hawkins has also used comp-stat data from the Salt Lake City Police Department showing that five of the 18 homicides in both 2020 and 2021 were in the Ballpark neighborhood. That accounts for 28% in the Salt Lake area for each of those years.
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