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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28, 2008
CRIME
Random checks curb alcohol violations
BY JESSICA WICKS
jwicks@kansan.com
Fake IDs come with the territory of a college town, but students and liquor stores should be on the lookout. The Lawrence Police Department conducted compliance checks this month in an effort to catch stores selling to minors.
Stan Ward, a sergeant at the
Lawrence Police Department, said 26 percent of stores failed these compliance checks and furnished alcohol to minors.
The Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control, KABC, awarded grant money to the Lawrence
fair, the buyers were all between 18- and 19-years-old so that they would appear young enough to card.
Ward said the department was working for a while to reduce the flow of alcohol to minors through media releases and informational training flyers in an attempt to get the stores to comply voluntarily in the months leading up to the checks.
This is not the first time the city
"Twenty-six percent of stores failed these compliance checks and furnished alcohol to minors."
STAN WARD
Lawrence police sergeant
Police Department to conduct the compliance checks. Police used the funds to send underage buyers into stores to attempt to make purchases with expired IDs or none at all. To be
teamed up with KABC to control criminal activity in the city. Last year, the city used KABC to help monitor and document violations in the downtown club Last Call. KABC gives the city more authority in controlling businesses licensed by the state, but only after extensive violations within the club have been reported. Tom Groneman, KABC director, was able to deny Last Call's liquor license
when it came up for renewal, which led to the eventual end of the club.
The Lawrence Police Department recorded 53 liquor law violations in 2005, compared to only 44 in 2007. The most obvious success the city made was in drunk driving incidents. Police issued nearly a third less citations for drunk diving in 2007 than just five years ago. In 2003, Lawrence had 643 arrests for driving under the influence and by 2007 that number declined to 455.
Even though these numbers have decreased, Lawrence has high numbers for both drunk driving and underage drinking compared to other college towns. Columbia, Mo. came close to Lawrence with 400 DWI arrests in 2007, but Stillwater, Okla., didn't even break the 200 mark. Over the last five years, Lawrence was consistently higher in alcohol-related incidents.
DWI arrests in college towns
Ronald Olin, Lawrence Chief of Police, told the Lawrence City Commission that the city spent $33,447 last summer for a Summer Safety Initiative, which was supposed to help lower crimes in the Downtown Lawrence Entertainment district. Olin said that during the
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Lawrence 643 641 583 579 495
Chapel Hill, N.C. 317 328 254 250 302
College Station Tex. 237 332 293 331 368
Stillwater, Ok. 211 309 299 266 199
Columbia, Mo. 425 601 578 476 400
Summer Safety Initiative, the police felt as though they could take care of important issues in the community better because they had ten on-duty officers to take care of issues in the entertainment district. During the initiative, police conducted 169 bar checks in 55 establishments, as well as 207 traffic enforcement actions, Olin said.
Olin said the bar checks led to increased safety within the establishments and the owners were cooperative overall. Olin also mentioned that patrons interviewed expressed
feelings of safety and satisfaction in Downtown Lawrence. Olin described some Lawrence residents as "happy citizens" in the downtown area, but said the overall disturbance in the area was much less.
Ward said the city will continue its random compliance checks throughout 2008, in order to decrease selling to minors and curb alcohol violations. Fake IDs may become a thing of the past in this college town.
Edited by Mandy Earles
INTERNATIONAL
Children's home haunts former residents
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. MARTIN, Jersey — Cyril Turner has vivid memories of his time at Haut de la Garenne, a forbidding Victorian-era home for troubled children where a child's skull has been dug up and where police fear they will discover the bones of more young victims.
None of Turner's memories are good: He recalls beatings and a culture of fear that led to an escape
attempt that ended in a car crash which landed him in the hospital for a year.
After decades of silence and shame, the truth about the imposing brown stone building overlooking the sea is slowly emerging as victims of suspected abuse speak out.
Turner, 49, is one of at least 150 people who have come forward to complain about physical, mental and sexual abuse they say was committed at the home before it closed in 1986.
wrong," said Turner, who was sent to the home at age 13 for repeated truancy and is now a father of four who lives in the Jersey village of St. Clement. "I was afraid every night and finally I did a runner with two older boys."
The abuse allegations and the grisly discovery Saturday of a child's remains have punctured the idyllic image of this British island off the coast of France.
That has been replaced by grim images of Haut de la Garenne, an austere structure set on a cliff overlooking stormy seas, where victims say the people in charge treated children as captives to be tortured, raped and cast aside.
Unsettling questions are being asked: Are there more victims buried on the grounds or hidden in a bricked-up cellar discovered inside the building? Could the perpetrators of abuse be a friend, a neighbor or other acquaintance?
One victim, 59-year-old Peter Hannaford, told a local newspaper he and other children were raped nearly every night for several years. He refused to discuss his ordeal when contacted by The Associated Press.
All but a few have remained anonymous as a police investigation unfolds. Most of the victims came forward after authorities set up a confidential hot line in November as part of an investigation into accusations of serious abuse at the home in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
One suspect, a 76-year-old man, has been arrested and charged with indecent assault for allegedly abusing three young girls at the home from 1969 to 1979.
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The Iraqi government demanded for the first time that Turkey immediately withdraw from northern Iraq, warning on Tuesday that it feared an ongoing incursion could lead to clashes with the official forces of the semiautonomous Kurdish region.
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Turkish fighter jets, helicopters and hundreds of commandos streamed across the border into northern Iraq on Wednesday.
"Our objective is clear. Our mission is clear and there is no timetable ... until the terrorist bases are eliminated," he said shortly after arriving in the capital at the helm of a delegation to discuss the military action.
ANKARA, Turkey — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that Turkey should remove its troops from northern Iraq in the next few days, sending a strong message that U.S. patience is running out on the operation targeting Kurdish insurgents.
Gates said he would ask Turkish leaders in a series of meetings Thursday to address some of the complaints of the Kurds, and move from combat to economic and political initiatives to solve differences with them.
"It's very important that the Turks make this operation as short as possible and then leave," Gates said late Wednesday from India before heading to Turkey. "They have to be mindful of Iraqi sovereignty. I measure quick in terms of days, a week or two, something like that, not months."
MIDDLE EAST
Gates sends message to Turkey
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It was the first time that the Pentagon chief put any time limit on the Turkish incursion launched into Iraq last Thursday against separatist rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. The rebels are fighting for autonomy in the largely Kurdish region of southeastern Turkey, and have carried out attacks from northern Iraq. Overnight, Turkish troops killed more than 70 Kurdish rebels, the Turkish military said.
A Turkish official insisted that the aim of a military incursion into northern Iraq "is clear and limited" against Kurdish rebels and said no timetable will be set "until the terrorist bases are eliminated." Ahmet Davutoglu, chief foreign policy adviser to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made the comments at a joint news conference in Baghdad on Wednesday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
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