FOX 13 Investigates: Salt Lake City lowers the bar for police response times “That is not a politically directed (goal), but it was arrived at by the chief,” said Mayor Erin Mendenhall.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said Friday she made the call to remove Mike Brown as police chief of the Salt Lake City Police Department. "It was my decision.

SALT LAKE CITY — Mayor Erin Mendenhall presented her office's public safety plan to tackle crime in Salt Lake City in January. The plan specifically included increasing police presence downtown ...

CAPITOL HILL—Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall said Friday that, in time, she will feel relieved and even grateful about many of the bills that passed during the 2025 legislative session, and how ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall is set to announce her recommendation for the city's new police chief, one week after Mike Brown made a surprise announcement to step down.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall called a plan for a state "rapid response team" to intervene in policing in the city – and losing some state money if the city does ...

With Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown retiring at the end of the month, Mayor Erin Mendenhall said Thursday there was no need to conduct a nationwide search for his replacement. That's because ...

Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s nudging Police Chief Mike Brown into retirement last week doesn’t seem to have changed that picture. Mendenhall pushed back firmly Friday on a pending bill to require ...

Brian Redd and Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall speak to the Deseret News editorial board in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. Mendenhall has nominated Redd — the current executive ...

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and other leaders celebrated the opening of the new sensory room at the airport with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday. Salt Lake City Department of ...

In choosing Utah’s top prison system official as Salt Lake City’s new police chief, Mayor Erin Mendenhall said she’d grown impatient with a decadeslong “blame game” of trying to solve ...

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall at the Triad Center in Salt Lake City on Jan. 15. The mayor said Friday she asked Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown to retire, saying it was time for a ...