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On-campus drug citations increase
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The incidents usually occur late at night. A resident assistant doing rounds in a residence hall smells marijuana coming from a room. The RA makes a phone call to the KU Public Safety Office and, typically within minutes, an officer is on scene investigating and knocking on the door.
If a resident doesn't answer, the officer reaches out to the District Attorney's office to apply for a search warrant. Once a judge reviews and signs the warrant, the officer can enter the resident's room. Oftentimes, the officer returns the same night to serve the search warrant, although they have several days to do so.
The speed with which officers can get search warrants today is one of the reasons University police have charged more students with drug crimes in recent years.
It's not necessarily
James Anguiano KU PSO Captain
there's more people using marijuana,it's just that there's more people getting cited for the use of marijuana."
The process wasn't always so quick, but in the last two years, since new criteria for search warrants and a more streamlined process was introduced, officers have been able to handle drug crimes faster and more efficiently.
In 2015, there were 186 drug related crimes at the University, an increase from 177 in 2014 and 107 in 2013, according to KU PSO. The majority of the cases involved drug paraphernalia or possession of marijuana.
Streamlining the process
Since the beginning of the school year through October, KU PSO has received 29 drug related calls, said KU PSO Captain James Anguiano.
"It's not necessarily there's more people using marijuana, it's just that there's more people getting cited for the use of marijuana," Anguiano said. "So that's why the numbers have shown that steady increase."
Anguiano attributed the higher number of citations to a collaboration between multiple organizations over the past few years.
"When you see the numbers rise, it was based on a collaborative effort between student housing, public safety, and the district attorney's office," Anguiano said.
Anguiano said since
about 2014, officers have been applying for more search warrants, and have had more success obtaining them when dealing with marijuana cases. He also said student housing staff has been better trained to recognize marijuana and report it to them.
KU PSO also worked with the Douglas County District Attorney's Office on new criteria to apply for a search warrant, which also contributed to more reports being taken, Anguiano said.
If a student doesn't let KU PSO in their room and there is probable cause to believe there is marijuana, KU PSO applies for a search warrant through a quicker, more streamlined process, which has resulted in an increase in search warrant usage, Anguiano said.
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Working with student housing
Diana Robertson, the director for Student Housing, said the continued collaboration with KU PSO is about trying to foster safe environments for residents.
to support the students," Robertson said. "In my mind, they paid for a space that should be free of that and to be able to help enforce that and support that was our motivation."
"From our end in student housing, it's about trying to protect community residents ... [and] to be able
"Even if we don't make contact with somebody, but we have an odor or somebody smokes in their room and leaves, we're still going to apply for a search warrant," Anguiano said. "So that's helped us."
According to the city's website, a citation can range from $200 to $2,500, and the person involved could face jail time of up to one year. The student also has to go through the student housing conduct process.
Robertson said that student conduct takes an educational approach. Then,depending on the severity of the violation and if the behavior is repetitive, the student's housing contract could be called into jeopardy.
"We want to make sure we're educating people about the laws and the consequences along the way so generally there's a first step of education, as with any policy," Robertson said.
Aside from residence halls, Anguiano said marijuana has also been mostly confiscated in residence hall parking lots and during car stops.
Colorado could be an influence
A recent survey of WHO released by the Kansas Attorney General found that a higher percentage of marijuana confiscated in Kansas is coming from Colorado since its legalization in 2014.
The Kansas Highway Patrol found that 48 percent of the marijuana seized in 2015 had Colorado origins, an increase of 30 percentage points from 2013, the Attorney General report said.
"Since we are so close to Colorado,some people think the law's the same everywhere," Anguiano said.
In 2014, KU PSO was able to identify 14 marijuana cases attributed to Colorado, according to the report.
Despite the marijuana edibles' increase across Kansas the last few years, Anguiano said the University isn't seeing a lot of them, but largely marijuana in its dry, vegetative form. The main problem the KU PSO has with edibles, Anguiano said, is that they're harder to detect and recognize.
To help combat this, KU PSO includes information about marijuana edibles, oils, and waxes in addition to its vegetative form in trainings for new officers and student housing, where marijuana is found the most on campus.
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A group of K-State students show their signs at Saturday night's "Lawrence Against Trumps Hate" protest.
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Protesters march on the sidewalks of Massachusetts Street.
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Some were high school students who weren't old enough to vote, but wanted to show their support. Others were parents and grandparents who brought their small children. Many were students from the University or surrounding colleges even a group of Kansas State University students joined in.
Although all the protestors wanted to show their dissatisfaction with Trump, many also had a personal reason for attending.
"I am here as someone who has been raped and as someone who is a member of the LGBT community," Emma Paape, a sophomore from Forest Lake, Minn.
said. "I have friends that are members of the LGBT community, I have Muslim friends, I have friends who are people of color. I have friends who are in danger because of this man who apparently we elected even though the people elected Hillary."
A major point of contention for some marchers was the electoral college, which allots a certain number of votes for each state a candidate wins by popular vote. Although Hillary Clinton won more individual votes across the nation, Trump won more states, and therefore won the presidency.
"My girlfriend and I are really just here to show our disgust with how this election has turned out," Connor Mosley, a protestor and
resident of Lawrence, said. "It really just bothers us that even though the majority of the population voted for Hillary Clinton we ended up with Donald Trump, who has promoted so much hate and unrest in this country. This is something that we are not proud of. We want people to know we aren't, and that we don't feel safe."
The march was nonviolent and, although there were some verbal altercations, there was little conflict between protesters and bystanders.
Samantha Hershberger, a teacher from Topeka, was walking back from the Sandbar when she ran into the marchers.
"I think that everyone has a right to disagree with something, but I feel like a
lot of it has been done with a lot of hate," Hershberger said. "I disagree, we can't stop it, but in different parts of the U.S. it's been so hateful and so wrong. It's uncomfortable for everyone, people feel unsafe and I just don't agree with it."
Jackson Brungardt, a junior at Lawrence Free State High School, was another bystander downtown Saturday night who disagreed with the protestors. He said he doesn't have a problem with people exercising their freedom of speech, but doesn't think it will change anything.
"In reality, this isn't going to change the president-elect, Donald Trump, and I like some of Hillary's views. I don't like all of Trump's views, but I think
Trump's a better guy for president, Hillary lies about a lot of stuff — so does Trump — but the things Hillary lies about are serious," Brungardt said. "I just think this is spreading hate, and it's a bit ignorant in the way I see it."
The crowd spent a little over half an hour on Massachusetts street before returning to South Park for more personal testimonies and reflections.
Price said she hopes that at the end of it all, people found a community where they can feel supported.
"What I hope to see is that there are more people in Lawrence who build a network," Price said. "Who say 'We are safe, we are safe people, if you need any help, we are here.'"
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