University Daily Kansan
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Tuesday, February 13, 1973
Headquarters, Police Unite Efforts
By JERRY ESSLINGER
Kenyon Staff Writer
JOHN PELSON
Kansan Staff Writer
Cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and Headquarters, Inc. 1832 Kentucky St., has been growing steadily in the past few months, although each are vastly different, law enforcement, and Headquarters officials said recently.
The Lawrence Police Department and Headquarters have realized they both can benefit from keeping in contact, according to Dan Hardixum, Lawrence Chief of Police.
Stanwick said that most instances of cooperation had involved cases of psychellic overdosages and that the department has increasingly had been seeking the services of a psychiatrist in cases rather than jailing a person suspected of being under the influence of drugs.
Confinement behind bars of a person who is hallucinating usually has an extremely detrimental effect, according to George Schulz, Headquarters drug analyst. Schuiz said the Lawrence police had shown a definite awareness in their handling of persons hallucinating or suffering effects of other drugs.
AN EXAMPLE OF he, said, was a case last semester in which the police department handed over to Headquarters a young man who had torn a grating from a wall in the police building while under the influence of a hallucinogen.
The same person, Stanwix said, was never charged with destruction in the building even after he was turned over to Headquarters personnel.
Stanwick said there was a two-way exchange of information between his department and the university.
"There have been a few instances when they (Headquarters) couldn't handle someone and asked us for assistance," Stanwis said. Also, whenever we have a phone call, we often voice an overdose, what I often do is pick up the phone and call Headquarters."
News Briefs By the Associated Press Prison Fires
WARPOLLE, Mass.—Fires broke out in sections of the state's maximum security prison here Monday night, but prison of 100 inmates was evacuated p.m., Lawrence time, three hours after the disturbance began. A spokesman said there had been no injuries. A state police spokesman said it was the second consecutive night of trouble at the prison, where inmates were being held. About 100 state police troopers had dispatched to the prison in riot gear.
Snow Storm
A 31-county portion of South Carolina was declared a disaster area Monday after a record-breaking weekend snowfall left thousands of stranded motorists. At least 11 deaths in South Carolina were attributed to the storm, which rowed across the South on Friday and caused other deaths related to the storm were recorded in North Carolina and three in Georgia.
Ocean Pollution
WASHINGTON-Government scientists Monday reported finding globs of oil and bits of plastic "in massive proportions" in the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Cod to the Gulf of Mexico, and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said the pollution was distributed "far more widely than had previously been suspected." NOAA reported that "more than half of the companies, young fish and the food collected from the ocean were oil-contaminated."
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STANWIX SAID that he might not have considered consulting Headquarters a year ago but that Headquarters had become extremely responsible under the direction of Ric Silber, the current Headquarters director.
"Most officers in the Lawrence Police Department used to not want to have much to do with the operation of Headquarters," they wrote. "They now there, we have little reluctance."
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Sibler said Monday that Headquarters' operation had been expanded and the that 25 new volunteers had been trained since the organization of increased needs for referral services.
Stanwick and Headquarters personnel acknowledged that because the aims of the two agencies were basically dissimilar, a two obvious cooperation between police and Headquarters could alienate or displease some persons involved in either the enforcement of drug laws or the Headquarters drug analysis program.
According to Schulz and Silber, some cooperation between police and Headquarters was beneficial, but Headquarters has, as much as possible remained autonomous from all law enforcement agencies. This role helped support with members of the "street community" who are naturally suspicious of any such relationship.
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"A major reason some cooperation has been possible is that local law enforcement agencies have respected the confidential information we provide our staff and our clients." Silber said.
Schulz said that since its inception, Headquarters, and especially its drug analysis program had had a direct sanction of local law enforcement agencies and a more indirect sanction from the Kansas Attorney General's office.
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HEADQUARTERS RECEIVES about six samples for drug analysis each week, Silber said. A sign on Headquarters' front door warns anyone who enters that holding or packaging will be included) on premises will not be tolerated unless a sample is to be analyzed.
Both Stanwyk and former Douglas County Attorney Mike Elmwell, who led several local drug investigations during his two years in office, said Headquarters' drug analysis program had operated completely outside of many of local law enforcement agencies.
Elwell said his office had maintained a
"Hands-off" policy, primarily because Headquarters had operated without any apparent discrepancies and its drug analyses had been done in a laboratory under the supervision of a University professor who was licensed by the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs to do analyses of illegal drugs.
HE SAID THAT he had not been aware of any mishandling of drug samples by Headquarters and that he thought persons were using analysis program had acted responsibly.
Stanwick concurred, saying that he knew of no instance in which law enforcement agencies had been in direct contact with the Headquarters drug analysis program.
However, Elwell said that at least one sample of a drug confiscated in a Lawrence drug raid had been taken to the University and compared to drugs already analyzed in Headquarters analysis or used to build cases against suspects were analyzed only in official state laboratories, Elwell said.
City to Hear Protest About Sidewalk Plan
CHUCK POTTER Kansan Staff Writer
Opponents of a controversial $85,000 skeletal sidewalk plan decided Monday night to appear at today's regular Lawrence meeting in order to protest the nlam.
Lloyd Davies, of 1845 W. 19th St., said Monday that he would show city commissioners a map which is colored to show the area residents who oppose the plan.
The plan involves a network of sidewalks in an area bounded by 19th, 23rd, Louisiana and Texas counties. The plan was established since October 1978, when a group of area residents who desired sidewalks began a series of meetings with Director of Public George Williams in order to outline the plan.
Davies said his group had contacted 983 property owners in the area and had received 333 replies. About 75 per cent of the respondents said they would comply, the commission's plan, he said.
About 30 people attended the opponents' meeting at the Baptist Student Center, 1629 W. 19th St. Many expressed bitter feelings about the commission's plan.
One area man asked, "If sidewalks are so important, where were the brains when they (the city commission) laid out this area without sidewalks?"
The commission plans to conduct a public hearing on the project today before beginning actual work on the project. Opinion will be filed in a file a protest petition after the hearing.
Davies said the group's purpose today would be to demonstrate to the commission the results of an opinion poll which showed people were three to one against the plan.
"If we're turned down," he said, "we will have to begin circulating a protest paper."
One area woman, who said that several sidewalk plans for the area had been defeated in the last 10 years, suggested that the history of such plans to the commission.
Robert Haralick, associate professor of electrical engineering and space technology who filed recently as a candidate for the city council in New York, meeting to express his views on the project.
"The city commission is 'generally in favor of sidewalks,' Haralick said. "In this instance they feel they have tried to get this in accordance with the people' wishes. In order for the commission to run, they have to keep the lines of communication open."
Haraldik added that he owned a house located at 19th and Albania streets and had a car.
In other business today, the commission plans to conduct a public hearing on the advisability of a marking lot extension for New Hampshire Street in the 900 block.
The commission also plans to:
- Consider a resolution authorizing a request to the Planning Division of the Kansas Department of Economic Affairs to provide planning assistance to Lawrence.
- Receive staff recommendations concerning two separate requests for an application to the State Department of Education.
- Consider an appointment to the Traffic Safety Commission to fill the vacancy created by the recent resignation of Ward Thompson, Sr.
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