KANSAN
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
Richard Stanwix, Lawrence chief of police, said yesterday that some of the recommendations by the county attorney's office for improving the police department had already been implemented. Stanwix is shown here at a Lawrence City Commission meeting in February.
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Chief Richard Stanwix
Vol. 86 No.132
Wednesday, April 28,1976
By JOHN FULLER
Report evaluates police conduct
Staff Writer
There is no evidence of widespread corruption or criminal activity in Lawrence city government or the police department, city attorney Attorney David Berkowitz said yesterday.
He reached that conclusion in his report on a three-month investigation of alleged sex crimes.
However, Berkowitz announced that his office was seeking the ouster of police Detective Ted Crady on several grounds. Crady was suspended yesterday without pay for the duration of the ouster proceedings.
In the ouster petition filed in district court, Crady was accused of售卖 LSD in LSD to help fund his campaign, but earlier this month that he didn't furnish LSD to the person named in the 1974 incident; and deliberately disclosing the identity of the person filing the confidencial drug work.
CRADY ALSO is accused of buying a car in 1971 or 1927 from a man named joe Dennis, who was a nanny for the failing to properly swear the car. Crady also is accused of falsely swearing under oath that he obtained permission from his officers before securing release of the car.
Berkowitz explained that ouster proceedings were civil proceedings conducted before a judge. The prosecution is required to prove its case by a preponderance of evidence as opposed to criminal proof. Proof of wrongdoing may be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
Crady, a seven-year veteran of the force, said he didn't do any of the things he had been accused of and that he would respond to the accusations within a couple of days.
BERKOWITZ SAID no criminal charges were filed against Crady because the status of limitations had expired on some of the alleged actions. Crady could be tried for perjury after the ouster proceedings, Berkowitz said, but a decision on that won't
Lawrence officials offer praise for police studv, recommendations
He said there would be no further court action resulting from the investigation.
THE COMMITTEE members said in their report they had received testimony from several police officers alleging that the officers were ranging from the failure of supervisors to act on the existence of organized crime in the city, to sexual misconduct and theft of property.
The 15-page report that Berkowitz released was the product of an investigation undertaken by the county attorney's office Jan. 28, when three members of a special six-member committee established to investigate mismanagement in city hall made a grand jury investigation of alleged criminal activity in the police department.
"Everybody's got their faults but were trying our best to correct them," Lawrence Police Chief Richard Stanwix said yesterday in response to the county attorney's report on alleged criminal activity in the police department.
Berkowitz s said there was no concrete evidence to substantiate either claim. The only evidence uncovered was that a police officer overheard someone giving the owner of a business a list of numbers which could have been used to identify the report said it was more likely the numbers could have been from something as innocent as salesman's order.
Berkowitz's investigation cleared the department of most of the charges made against it but it also pointed out there were basic problems in the police department in the areas of discipline, communications and leadership. The report detailed the findings of a study by Berkowitz's suggestions on how the department's problems should be handled.
—That there is organized crime in Lawrence and that no action had been taken as soon as possible.
City Commissioners Barkley Clark and Marrie Angersinger said they thought the report was proof that city government can and should be handed locally, reflecting their desire to keep the national Teamsters Union out of city politics.
"We felt that the best thing to do was to get him off the police force without worrying whether he goes to jail or not," Berkowitz said.
Some of the allegations and the investigation's results are:
Stanwick's reaction was generally supported by city officials and commissioners who praised the report for clearing the air of the charges and accusations that have been levied against the department since 1970, on account of city mismanagement began last year.
David Berkowitz
By JOHN FULLER and JANET SCHMIDT
"WE MUST WORK for a fair wage, good
“For a police department to go through such a thorough investigation is only a task,” he said. “I had to shape, shape, Mayor Fred Pierce said last night. ‘The chief has some faults but nobody’s perfect; there was only one person in the room who had been Jesus Jesus Christ and they crucified him.”
be made until the conclusion of the proceedings.
Argersinger said she liked the idea of having patrol officers on the board along with supervisors because it was the patrol officers who brought most of the alleged
—That an officer in the traffic division received a free car from a business that has a license.
working conditions and clean operations in all departments and continue working toward those goals in spite of pressure from both sides: those that investigating committees make nervous and those that feel equally wrong. All organizations allize unions. Both are equally wrong. Clark said, "What has been shown is that we have a good, clean, honest government."
BERKOWITZ SAID because no formal charges had been filed on the allegations, except where absolutely necessary, he required that all allegations or allegations or who allegations were against.
Berkowitz and his chief investigator, James Huskey, interviewed 68 persons during the investigation. Berkowitz said that with few exceptions everyone cooperated fully. Two police officers refused to cooperate until they were subpoenaed and there was one misunderstanding with Richard Wuest, chief of the police who would receive some personnel files on a temporary basis, the report said.
CITY MANAGER BUFORD Watson said he liked the idea of the board because it relieved the police chief of the duty of making investigations individually.
See CHARGES page 10
CLARK CONCURRED, saying, "The situation in the police department is parallel to the changes made in the sanitation department. There we have eliminated the incentive system," were new vehicles and building a city garage."
Stanwick said he and other high ranking officers were currently rewriting the police department's rule book and manual, partially in response to the investigation's recommendations to clarify regulations and policies.
Stanwick said he would be in favor of the disciplinary board recommended by the report and wouldn't be against having a city administrator on it. The board would handle investigations and pass its findings on to the county attorney and the city manager.
improporties to the attention of the investigating committees.
THE LAWRENCE Patrol Officers Association
can't hard yet to form an opinion on
the issues, but will try to provide
some input.
The officials also had similar feelings on the most negative aspect of the report. They stood behind Watson's decision to suspend Detective Ted Cradt for his alleged illegal activities but said they thought Cradt was innocent until proved guilty.
Watson said it was proper for the county attorney to file charges and that “it exonerates the other 99 people who work in that organization.”
Both Watson and Clark said they were relieved that no evidence of organized crime was found.
The report shows the charge of massive organized crime in Lawrence 'is almost a million' (I don't know exactly how many).
"If he's innocent, I'm behind him all the way." Pence said.
Carter wins Pennsylvania primary
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jimmy Carter swept to victory in the Pennsylvania presidential primary election last night, stopping the Democrats who had tried to stop him, and gaining momentum in his campaign for White House nomination.
The former Georgia governor told
some people he would teach him the
"we're going to join with the war."
Carter was gaining 35 per cent of the popular vote in Pennsylvania's presidential preference election. Returns were tailed in favour of the separate competition for delegates.
The early delegate count showed Carter supporters leading in that phase of the primary, too. But the figures were inaccurate, and the outcome will not be clear for days.
While Carter said he had swept aside every possible obstacle in his path, there remained the looming figure of Sen. Hubert Kane, who has skipped the primaries so far.
Humphrey, in Washington, said "I want to see the Democratic party win. If Jimmy Carter can win, I'm not going to try to stop him at all."
Carter beat Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington, with Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona running third. TheGeorgian won by 15 points, but the lineup of Democratic leaders, who put together a stop-Carter movement in an effort to restore the race, ran out of time the race open for a late Humphrey entry.
Pennsylvania Gov. Millon J. Shapp, Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana, and Fred R. Harris, former Oklahoma senator, all campaign chairs in the debate. McCormack divided the rest of the vote.
President Ford won without opposition in the Republican primary. Ronald Reagan
That hasn't been foreclosed. But Carter will be more difficult to head off now. He has won seven of the first nine primaries, and the only candidate entered in all the rest.
skipped Pennsylvania to make his stand in more promising conservative territory. He and Ford meet in the Texas primary on Saturday.
In the preference vote, Carter led virtually everywhere. He trained Jackson only in Philadelphia, where union and organization support counted most.
These were the figures with 36 per cent of the 9,638 preincts counted:
Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace 48,674
or 10 per cent.
Carter 170,868 or 35 per cent
Jackson 138,526 or 28 per cent
- Jackson 138,520 or 28 per cent.
- Udall 95,124 or 19 per cent.
In the separate delegate competition, which jackdon had said he would win, only 6 per cent of the precincts had reported. There were 31 Carter supporters leading for delegate seats, 25 uncommitted, 21 Shapp, 16 Jackson, 9 Idall and 1 Wallace.
Pennsylvania Democrats will have 178 votes at their national convention.
The state's 103 Republican delegates will be formally uncomitted, but all almost of them will be elected.
Petitions help in defeating motorcycle park request
The petitions were presented at a public hearing of the Lawrence City Commission.
Pettitions with the signatures of 96 local residents helped defeat a request last night by Lawrence High School motorcyclists and park be made available for trail riding.
The hearing was for residents to present their views on opening Perry Park, north of 18th and west of Kasol, to motorcycles, now banned from public parks by city law.
The commission voted 5-0 against changing the law. Mayor Fred Pence qualified his vote by saying that motor vehicle theft in the county compass with their request.
One of the petitions against opening the park to motorcyclists was presented by the local council.
Cohn,wholives near Perry Park,said the park was already being used illegally by
"It is incredibly noisy," he said. "So much so that you cannot sit on your patio and eat or drink."
"There is also a spill-over of riders on the
residential streets. This is very dangerous to children."
William T. Harris, 3418 W. 10th Terr. have quite little Kevlan in their have quite a bit of *Evel Kuvel in their*.
Steve Glass, Route 4 and a Lawrence High School student, presented a petition with 42 signatures in support of making the park available to motorcyleclubs.
"What the people of Lawrence High School are trying to do is have a place where cyclists will get run out by the police or because of complaints." Glass said.
Brad Grob, Route 4, agreed with Glass and said trail bikers weren't licensed for riding in the streets, yet there was no place available in Lawrence for the riders.
Freed DeVictor, director of parks and recreation, presented the view that was
"An evident need has been shown, but I don't feel that anything we have in the city would be compatible with motorcycles," DeVictor said.
In other business, the commission accepted an ordinance authorizing the installation of stop signs at 15th and Barker, 19th and Barker, and 27th and Alabama.
House, senate endeavors assessed by legislators
By JOHN MUELLER
Finances, highways and education dominated the 767 session of the Kansas Legislature, area leaders said.
They disagreed, however, on nearly everything else about the session.
State representatives said the Kansas House had acted more responsibly than the Kansas Senate
"The Senate's a bunch of turkeys," said State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence.
"The House is closer to the grass roots and the people than the Senate is," said State Rep. John.
STATE REP. LLOYD Buzzi, R-Lawrence, was unavailable for comment
Glover and Vogel said that State Sen. Roy Doyen, who served his first term as president of the Senate this year, had given Senate Republicans more freedom than they'd had in the past.
State Sen. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, had a different opinion of the House.
"I don't have time," Booth said. "I couldn't begin to list all the mistakes the House has made."
"They need to keep the troops in line more over there (the Senate)," said Vowel.
He also said that senators served on too many committees and couldn't devote enough time to them.
Glover said that the legislature had "a country cup atmosphere each year" and that Democrats were not likely to be elected.
Booth said that "Democrats offer amendments that sound great, but won't work."
"THE MAJORITY PARTY is the party of responsibility," he said.
VOGEL AGREED that legislators should have exempted prescription drugs from the sales tax and said that such an exemption would eventually become law.
Exempting food and drugs, he said, could have been done on a sliding scale based on income that would not be required.
"We're assuming certain things," Vogel said, "that from 1768 to 1980 we'll have a 7.5 per cent increase in revenues and a 5 per cent increase in operating costs."
Glover said that the state's financial surpluses hurt poor persons, and that the legislature should have exempted food and prescription drugs from sales taxation.
He said, however, that exempting food might cost the state too much money without giving many to those who need it.
Booth said he wouldn't support any plan that would denote the state's balances.
"Let's take care of what we've got," he said. "I'd test comfortable with a balance of no less than $70."
"We don't have a surplus," Vogel said, "since the cost of living will catch up with the state's balancer."
LEGISLATORS DENIED Gov. Robert F. Bennett's charges that the trucking industry lobby had been responsible for changes made by the legislature in Bennett's highway improvements proposal.
"I've never been approached improperly by lobbists." Rooth said.
Booth said that people were "sick of super-four highways in large metropolitan areas" and that Bennett's plan, as amended, would call for "vast improvement" in the state's highway system.
Legislators authorized $29.4 million a year in highway funds, and they got the money by increasing the state's fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees.
Glover said that the highway legislation was regressive in that paying for it would affect the poor and elderly proportionally than it would the wealth.
"I DON'T WANT to sound like a bleeding-heart literal." Glover said, "but the working poor are often the ones who don't know."
Glover said that the highway legislation would be an important issue in fall election campaigns.
Vogel said Douglas County would benefit from the highway legislation's so-called '34U' program of expanding motorway capacity.
The Kansas Department of Transportation has announced that the U.S. 56 repairs in Douglas City are up to date.
Higher education, legislators said, had received adequate funding for the coming fiscal year.
"APPROPRIATIONS are not pretty good," Vosel said, "and we've been liberal in the past.
18 per cent OOE (other operating expenditures) will do the job this year."
soon said that although University of Kansas professors had received $ p per cent salary increases from this year's legislature, they might not receive further increases next year.
"Watch out next year," Booth said. "We may have a hell of a bacl over salaries."
Glover said legislators appreciated students' lobbying efforts for higher education, which he said is crucial to the future of Michigan.
Booth said that if Kansas wheat production was down this year, the resulting drop in state revenue would be significant.
MANY LEGISLATORS, he said, often wrongly equate higher education with public elementary and high school.
Booth said public education had grown much faster than higher education, and attempts to fund public education involved the problem of power neutralization.
THE PROBLEM WITH FTE funding formulas, Booth said, was that a densely populated wealthy area could raise money with less effort than a sparsely populated wealthy area could.
Power equalization, he said, resulted from federal court decisions that said children in poor school districts had a right to the same education as that enjoyed by children in wealthy districts.
Booth said the state would allow districts to increase their budgets by 107 per cent over the coming fiscal year, based on their FTEs (full-time equivalent students enrolled in the districts).
Booth said that Johnson County, for example, could raise more money with less effort than the state.
"In Hugleton," Booth said, "they've got oil wells and gold knobs on the school doors, but they just don't know."
Booth said that state aid to education was preferable to local support because of the unrestricted availability.
Vogel said that Lawrence schools were already power equalized and received 40 per cent of their funding.
BOOTH SAID THAT the legislature had made progress in eliminating per pupil expenditure
"When we started to equalize, the (disparity) rate was $1.00 to $500 from richest to poorest," he wrote in a 2003 letter.
Vogel said that a reason for disparity reduction had been that the "smaller districts have pooled water."
Legislators said that issues other than finances, highways and education had been important during the session, but they disagreed on which other issues had been important and why.
Glover said he'd concentrated on marijuana
criminalization, but the House and Senate
held him in contempt.
"THE SPEAKER (Danne S. "Pete" McGill, R-Winfield) just hemmed and hawed around and what happened was that the Senate leadership didn't want to bring it up this year." Clover said.
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