Tuesday, May 1, 1979
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Obscene calls breed fear
By LYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Reporter
11:30 p.m. The telephone rings. Stumbling through the dark house and the mist of sleep, the woman hurries to answer it.
An unfamiliar male voice speaks her name. His next words explode in her ear: it's a simple statement of a sexual act, a string of four-letter words.
It leaves her speechless and confused, staring at the phone.
Click. The man hangs up.
Tomorrow, the obscene phone call may be the topic of a lively conversation, her contribution to a discussion of similar stories.
But tonight, alone in her apartment, she feels fear.
Little has been written about obese phone callers. Fare are ever caught or prosecuted, despite the fact that nearly every woman has at least one obese cellphone in her life.
He knew her name. He probably knows her address, too.
But most authorities would agree that the woman had nothing to fear. Few obscene calls are intended as anything more than an anonymous form of sexual harassment.
THE CALLER is seeking a response any response; according to Pauli Knight,
manager of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s Lawrence office.
For that reason, the best solution is to hang up immediately. Knight said.
"If the caller isn't getting your attention—if you're not getting visibly upset—he'll also call," she said.
William Arnold, associate professor of sociology, said most obscene phone calls probably were made at parties, without serious motivation or implications.
"It's the same motivation that would, at another party, make them decide to go out and park the up," Arnold said.
A few cases, however, may be the work of a sex pervert.
Five women, comparing notes on the obscene phone calls they had received this semester, decided they had all heard from the same man.
"IM GOING to strip for you," every phone call began.
That kind of caller could be compared to a flasher. And Thomas Reilly, assistant professor of psychology, said the best reaction to a flasher is to unlose him.
"The best thing you can do is to act like there's nothing to respond to: 'ho, hum, what else are new?' "Reilly advised
But the technique of not responding may not always stop the calls. When they persist, Southwestern Bell suggests blowing a whistle into the receiver.
However, that strategy could backfire
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Some women respond to obscene phone calls with the theory that the best defense is being quiet.
"I was even grosser than he was," a woman who prefers to be unidentified.
REILLY the woman may enjoy the revenge of unwinning the caller but she doesn't.
Reilly also said the chances were slim an obscene caller would continue to harass one person.
"If you give them any response, they may be encouraged," he said.
That was the route that Sarah and her three roommates took when they received a rash of calls from one man for more than two weeks.
But when the calls do persist, the phone company is willing to help. Southwestern Bell will change the number to an unlisted number without charge.
"What really scared us was that he would also forge his name and say that he would be the king."
he's got your number; he may retaliate with a ladder whistle.
When the man called and said he had been looking in their window the previous night, and then continued to call all day, whom decided it was time to go unlisted.
WHEN THE calls do become threatening, and if changing the number
The procedure is no longer difficult. A computer records the tune and origin of all phone calls on a line being traced. When the obecene call comes, the recipient needs only to mark the time, so that it can be printed with the computer printout for the day.
does not stop them, Southwestern Bell will trace the calls, Knight said.
But before the phone company will trace a call, the recipient should be prepared to deal with the police.
The maximum penalty for obscene telephone calls is one year in jail and a £2,500 fine.
Knight said, "We cannot give out any information from a trace to the person who is receiving the call. That has to go through a law enforcement authority."
Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said in spite of the large number of reported incidents, only four obscure cases, on the average, are prosecuted in a year.
KNIGHT SAID that the Lawrence office of Southwestern Bell had received 250 complaints of obscene or harassing calls last year.
The chances are slim that an obese phone caller will ever be caught. But the chances are equally slim that the caller becomes more than a voice at the end of the line.
Police find hypnosis can be useful
By BRUCE THOMAS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Sitting with my head slightly lowered, I began ginging softly.
Detective Steve Reese leaned closer and said in a low voice, "What do you see?"
The guy is getting out of his car" I am
annoyed with the memory of the
invented was immediately visible.
"I can't believe this little fart is going to walk up the hill and beat the out of both
he is pulling something out of the pocket and it's shining in the streetlight."
"What do you see now?" Reese asked.
I couldn't stop giggling; the situation seemed absurd.
"He is pulling something out of his back pocket and it's shining in the streetlight."
The man steps toward me and jams a paste in my face. My head bobs backwards. I look at him. He's not crying.
LAST WEEK—two months after the assault—I was hypnotized by two members of the Lawrence Police Department. While hypnotized, I gave the officers detailed descriptions of the assailant and his car, and he told me that he was able to remember after the incident.
Some previously dead-end police cases have found new life because of investigative work.
Law enforcement officers are turning to hypnosis more and more frequently to recover information from witnesses and victims of felonies.
Hearing car tires screech, a person turns to see the back of a car speeding away. Under hypnosis, the witness is able to give notice the license number of the suspect's car.
A victim of a violent crime blocks the memory of the attack from his conscious mind but under hypnosis he relives the events and gives an accurate description of his assault.
Hypnosis enhances a subject's memory by freeing his mind from competing thoughts, Erik Wright, professor of psychology, said.
"HYPNOSIS IS a state of consciousness by a reduction of outside stimulation and a focusing of one's active consciousness on a very narrow field." Wright, who has worked with hypnosis for more than 20 years, said.
Hypnosis has been used in law enforcement for about 19 years, but only since 1976 has the technique been taught to police officers in Kansas, director of police training, said.
This state, this focus on interfering thoughts,
allows a subject to reach into his mind and
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About 65 Kansas police investigators have been trained to use hypnosis since 1977, during four-day training sessions the university offers. The hypnosis induction techniques and the
Before 1976 it was used by psychologists both in and out of law enforcement he said.
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status of investigative hypnosis in the courts.
THE TESTIMONY of hypnotized witnesses has not yet been used in a Douglas court. Mr. Malone could not be used. Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said the testimony of witnesses who had been hypnotized may have been in court but only under special conditions.
Since its first use, investigative hypnosis has faced many challenges and one of its greatest challenges is that it is
There have been several federal circuit cases that have allowed the testimony of hypnotized witnesses into court, according to Malone, but the court requires that if hypnosis is used in an investigation the defense must be told.
In one Lawrence case, a woman who had been assaulted gave an accurate description of the defendant in the trial. Before she was hypnotized, she was unable to describe her assailant. However, her testimony was not used in court.
"The hypnotist must also be at the trial and the defense must be able to cross-examine him to show he did not influence the witnesses' testimony." Malone said.
Detectives Reese and Don Donoho, of the Lawrence Police Department, completed a course in criminal law offered by Denver for their training course which was taught by a commercial organization that trains officers.
Malone said he did not use the women's testimony because the case was strong without it. He also was concerned that the witness was a proponent because of a defrauding objection to the hyphens.
The use of investigative hypnosis by the Lawrence Police Department is in its infancy. Major Darrell Stevens said hypnosis had been used in three investigations this year by the department. Stevens said he did not think it had been used before this year.
"In a way it was kind of an experiment," he said. "I was trying to see if it would work and it has made something of a believer out of me.
"HOWEVER, BECAUSE it's so new, I don't feel totally comfortable about it."
When I was hyphnotized, Detective Donoho told me to concentrate on his rink as he passed.
He repeated over and over again, "Your eyes are getting heavy, you're getting heavier."
This is one of the hypnosis techniques Donoho and Reese learned at the hypnotist's school.
Some psychiatrists and psychologists say that even if they are trained, officers may
not always protect the best interests of the subject.
"The hypnific state is a complex state. It is more of a, if a casual experience than no pressure."
"There is a very real place in police work for hypnosis," he said. "I don't object in principle to investigate hypnosis. My caution is one of concern for the protection of the mind and emotion of the subject from trauma and exploitation."
Police use hypnosis to recover information during a criminal investigation. Their goals differ from those of the police in that they are not interested with emotional problems through hypnosis.
Police officers can learn the technique of hypnosis easily but hypnosis is more than merely learning a technique. Wright said. A good psychologist will be a hypnotist and the subject must be established.
WRIGHT SAID that a victim, while reliving a crime under hypnosis, might struggle, cry or scream as he did when he was attacked. He said he was concerned that a police officer would not take as much attention and be victim as a therapist would in a rape case.
11. Thomas Sergent, a hypnosis investigator for the Shawnee County Sheriff's department, said, "I law enforcement uses hypnosis only to enhance memory recall. We are not psychiatrists and we don't pretend to be."
However, Reese said, "I don't know any police officer who would push a subject when he was severally agitated. Why run up the stairs and then motion and the reputation of the department?"
"When you are in a hypnotic state, you're in a heightened state of suggestibility," he said. "The aspect of suggestibility is very difficult to detect, just as it would be in a normal investigation."
Sergent has used hypnosis in four cases since 1977. He said it was important that the investigator not lead the witness, a danger particularly serious in hypnosis.
One way to avoid leading the witness, according to Sergeant, is to have an experienced investigator conduct the hypnosis session.
"ONCE THIS PERSON has admitted the hypnotist into his private space he is open to subtle suggestions," he said. "What may have been intended to be an inquiry might elicit a suggested response not altogether reliable."
This is a concern Wright also shares.
"Only an experienced, qualified investigator who has worked on many things."
As the use of hypnosis in police work spreads, the number of its challengers seems to diminish. Sergent告说，他 thinks its value was a tool for investigators will take advantage of.
HYPNOSIS IS an investigative tool. It is just like the polygraph—whatever you come up with has to be substituted and supported by other evidence," he said.
because of the danger of leading the witness. "Sergeant said.
Probably the most interesting aspect of investigative hypnosis is the cases them-
Reese had been told of a case in which a bank teller who had been robbed was hypnotized to improve her memory of the incident.
When she was asked to describe the robber's clothing she said he was wearing a brown jacket.
Asked how she knew this, she told investigators she remembered seeing the small red label on his back pocket as he left the bank.
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Firemen, city come closer to agreement
By KATE POUND Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Progress was made yesterday in contract negotiations between local firefighters and city officials, according to representatives of both sides.
'We did make progress but it took a long time to get anywhere,' he said.
"We had a real successful meeting," kevin Burt, director of city employee programs.
ACCOUNTING TO Burt, the firefighters agreed to a contract proposal calling for the continuation of the fire department's fitness plan or one "fastened after it."
James Woydraik, vice president of Local 1896 of the International Association of Firefighters, agreed that progress had been made, but said negotiations had gone
The negotiating teams did not discuss a 17 percent cost of living pay increase proposed by the firefighters. Burt said, but had already been told to proceed with a physical fitness program for firefighters.
The current plan is under the direction of the department of health, physical education and recreation at the University of Kansas, Burt said.
Acting pay is additional pay given to firefighters who assume the duties of a firefighter.
Firefighters also agree to a counterproposal from the city concerning acting fire brigades.
Firefighters had asked for a specific amount of acting pay for their department, Burt said.
THE CITY'S counter-proposal will give
firefighters who assume responsibilities of a higher position either the minimum level of that position's pay scale of 5 percent of the firefighter's salary. Wov迪saik said.
The negotiators also agreed to a city proposal naming firefighters, fire mechanics, drill masters, fire prevention officers and residents as part of the bargaining unit.
Woydzik said that if a firefighter temporarily assumed the duties of a lieutenant, he would normally be given a lower level of the lieutenant pay scale, or if the firefighter were already earning above that level, he would be paid the 5 percent. Acting in such a position for 24 hours of duty in a higher position, he said.
The bargaining unit for the 1800 contract, which becomes effective Jan. 1, will cover $396 million in wages.
Also discussed during the meeting were proposals for increased firefighter longevity and better training. The proposal covering the injuries in the line of duty, Burt said. Both sides agreed to drop
THE BARGAINING unit names the department's employee who will be under the direction of the department chief, assistant chief and department captains are excluded from the bargaining unit, he said, because the city considers them to be management per-
"We just agreed that it wasn't justified," she said, referring to the longevity pay its property.
The negotiators will meet again on Monday to discuss the firefighters' pay plan.
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