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Job called contributor to police divorce rate
By DAVID EDDS Staff Reporter
University Daily Kansan
Police officers in Lawrence not only must fear for their lives, they apparently do so under the guidance of an officer.
While statistics for Lawrence Police Department officers' divorces are not kept, some studies of other departments have shown that as many as 75 percent of all officers are divorced within the first three years of police work.
However, Richard Stanwick, Lawrence police chief, said no Lawrence officers had been arrested.
RON DALIQUEST, a sergeant with the Lawrence Police Department who was divorced two years ago, said, "Sometimes during your police career, you get a bad attitude. You're real skeptical and paranoid about your family."
Several divorced Lawrence police officers and their former spouses said police work was a contributing factor in their divorces.
Dalquest said the skepticism contributed to his divorce.
Dalquest's former wife, Martha Dalquest, explained, 'Ron and I both agree that he underwent a personality change the longer he was on the police force.
Police officers become skeptical because, "they lose trust in people. Basically, everyone lies to you," according to Daquest.
"He'd explain to me that he was so used to dealing with the criminal element that he had changed his values. Ron lost faith in Jesus' grace, and I believe that included me."
HE ALSO said most police officers became very protective of their families because they saw every day what happened to the victims of crime.
"The first thing a new cop will do is buy a handgun for his wife to have at home," alQoust said.
John Stratton, staff psychologist for the Los Angeles County (Calif.) Sheriff's Department, agreed.
"A police officer develops concern for his family because he sees so much crime," he said.
Being exposed to crime daily and dealing almost exclusively with society's criminal element sometimes causes police officers to undergo personality changes
Mrs. Dalquest said she thought some officers developed a low opinion of people. "They're very unfriendly," she said.
"I think it's really a shame that people in
a power position, like police, come to have so little regard for the people they're dealing with and the population in general," she said.
A FEELING of mistrust toward the world also is not uncommon among police officers, Stratton said.
"If you work in a world where you deal with only one kind of person, you generalize," he said.
Officers also said the nature of police work made it easy to fall into another trap that could destroy a marriage—becoming a workaholic.
David Cobb, an officer with the Lawrence Police Department, and his former wife, Pam Cobb, a detective with the KU police department, both said becoming too involved with police work led to their divorce.
Cobb said he and Parm spent more time on their jobs when they noticed their mistakes.
Cobb agreed that changes in character occurred when an officer out on a uniform.
"WHY COME home when things aren't going well? We both put more time into our jobs than our relationships," he said. "Instead of fighting problems at home, you put on a uniform because it seems like you're in a world you can control while in uniform. You can solve other people's problems, but shirk your own."
many times an officer put on a uniform. Police work requires that officers be emotional and that they adopt a different personality while working. Some officers carry that lack of emotion home with them, almost always with bad side effects. Stratton said, "You can't turn someone into someone else." Uniform. Officers have to shift off emotions at the job. Sometimes they still have them turned off when they get home," he said.
"WHEN A policeman comes off work, he's heard about troubles all day. Everyone in the family wants to tell you about his problems. This had a tendency to make the wife and kids feel like they were neglected."
Mrs. Cobb said officers were taught during training to control their emotions, but she added that sometimes an officer had to be very careful not that it created problems in family life.
"Most of the things cops with stress are defense mechanisms," she said. "If you didn't have defense mechanisms, you'd be in the funny farm. I would transfer these mechanisms to my personal life—and it didn't work," she said.
"if two people in a marriage have this attitude of never backing down, it's hard to believe."
POLICE ALSO develop a habit of
refusing to back down in arguments. Mra
Stratton said his office tried to counsel police officers with marital problems in the hope that counseling would help them perform their job better.
However, one officer and his divorce actually helped him improve his perseverance on his job.
According to Dalqest, the job is five times easier now that he's divorced.
"I don't have all the worries of my family," he said. "I can stay at the station all night, all day. I can come and go as I please."
Stanwick said that although the Lawrence Police Department had no program dealing specifically with helping officers and their spouses work out problems, a chaplin's program in the department had counselled officers with martial problems.
"I asked Stanix if other police wives and I could ride with patrol cars for a while to see what went on. Chief Stanix said it couldn't be done," she said.
MRS. DALQUEST said she had made a report that she would be a program for the law department.
Stanwick said he did not think it was proper for spouses to go on patrol with others.
"If an officer is injured, and a wife sees it, she could go into bystander," he said.
Mrs. Dalquest does not see it that way, however.
"If policemen are really going to try to keep a relationship together," she said, "their wives should be allowed to get involved in police work."
NOT ALL police officers have marital problems. Mark Brothers and his wife, Barbara, have been married 10 years and have had many serious problems in their marriage.
"Police work is not going to break up a marriage," Brothers said, "but if there is a small flaw in the marriage, police work will bring it out."
He said a supportive wife could help prevent some of the problems inherent in police work.
"One of the biggest problems a cop has to face is cynicism. If the spouse is not there to help him adjust, you're going to cop with some problems in his life," he said.
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KU geological study will provide information on river wanderings
By LEO CAROSELLA Staff Reporter
The Kansas River tends to wander, creating problems for landowners whose homes are along the river.
The U.S. Corps of Engineers has financed a University of Kansas study to determine the causes and effects of the river's changing channels.
Wakefield Dort Jr., professor of geology, is supervising the project, which is a study of more than 600 miles of river channel, including stretches of the Kansas, Saline, Smoky Hill and Solomon rivers and their tributaries.
THE SECOND PART of the study, at a cost of $61,000, will concentrate on controlling the river's wanderings. The Corps need immediate attention and what to do.
This part of the study cost $60,000.
According to Dort, his role in the Corps' overall project is to discern channel changes that possibly could endanger riverfront land.
"The first part of our study," he said yesterday, "deals with what has, and will hold for us."
One such area is the Eudora Bend, also known as Weaver Bottoms, just downstream.
"Some maps looked like an artist had drawn," he said, "so we couldn't use a lot of the earth's data."
The atlas, which will be published soon, was put together from old river maps, surveys and aerial photographs of the area. Some of the maps date to before 1850, and this has created problems for the study, Dort said.
Another startling discovery was that the another startling discovery was that the
LOOKING AT THE aerial shots, we found remnants of channel changes from more recent years.
Instead, the group used the locations of buildings, roads and survey points to determine the distance from each point.
The aerial photographs showed where the channels had been and how they had moved through the years. They also turned up at least one surprise.
"Some banks may be of sand, which erodes very easily," he said, "while others may be of clay, which would hardly erode at all."
Dort gave climatic variations and differences in the channel banks as possible.
"Some points have moved a mile while others haven't budged," he said.
"This point has shifted rapidly in the pass, few years," Dori said. "It's already washed
Besides the practical aspects of the study, Dert said, the study also was for 'pure' research.
"This study can be applied to other rivers in helping us to understand how water behaves," he said. "Some rivers haven't been developed yet, and we'd like to find out why."
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