Lawrence Journal-World 05-09-2016

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City hears FLYING TOWARD THE FUTURE case for stricter ban on fireworks By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

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MCFARLANE AVIATION MECHANIC ANDY PRITCHARD HUNCHES OVER THE ENGINE OF A CESSNA 337 SPYMASTER during an annual inspection at the aviation parts and production facility on Thursday at McFarlane Aviation, 696 East 1700 Road in Vinland. McFarlane is in the process of having a new facility constructed to expand its operation. BELOW: McFarlane Aviation employee Kristin Evilsizor works to produce seat cabling for Cessna Citation aircrafts.

McFarlane Aviation expanding with eye toward aerospace industry By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ

At first glance, the bottle opener Dan McFarlane displays to illustrate the new manufacturing process McFarlane Aviation plans for its Vinland plant doesn’t look much different from other metal bottle openers. It has the same bend near the business end as most openers that fit on key chains, and has a mouth that fits snuggly on the bottle cap. What sets it apart are the

numerous perforated raindropshaped holes in what McFarlane reveals is a titanium body. “This is probably the most over-engineered McFarlane bottle opener in existence,” he said. The holes are meant to show off its fabrication through the additive manufacturing process, the industry

Last Fourth of July weekend, Lawrence police received 264 fireworks-related calls and issued nine citations for violating the citywide fireworks ban. City leaders will take a look Tuesday at the 14-year-old ban, how it’s been complied with and whether there are enough resources to strengthen its enforcement. The discussion will come after an appeal CITY from a small group of COMMISSION Lawrence residents who are concerned with fireworks’ effects on local veterans. “Now, we have a lot of veterans who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, current conflict veterans, and they deal with things when there are random explosions or other triggers,” said Brooklynne Mosley, a U.S. Air Force veteran and commander of VFW post 842 in Lawrence. “I don’t want to see more rules; I just want to see the rules they do have being enforced better. I don’t want people to feel like they’re not in a safe space.” U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs findings support the concern. A VA report from 2011 said noise from fireworks could cause a reaction in veterans with

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Police reports show 24 use-of-force incidents during 2015 All but one case followed department policy By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson

Last year, Lawrence police officers resorted to the use of force 24 times. In all but one of those instances police department policies were followed, an internal police review has determined.

The Lawrence Police Department released both its annual Taser and Use of Force reports for 2015 on April 29. Both reports briefly summarize each instance throughout the year when officers used forceful methods or a Taser. Between Jan. 1, 2015, and Dec. 31, 2015, 24 reports were submitted stemming

from 21 incidents, the reports state. The number of reports is higher than the number of incidents because of occasions when multiple officers used force in the same incident. While brief summaries of each use of force or Taser deployment are available to the public, the Use of Force Reports

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themselves are not. dispatch, such as In a given year, traffic stops. Lawrence police “So we have over officers respond 100,000 contacts to 50,000 calls to with citizens on a service and an adyearly basis. So if ditional 50,000 selfwe’re looking at generated calls, 24 incidents, that’s said Lawrence really not a whole Police Chief Tarik Khatib lot, statistically,” he Khatib. said. Self-generated calls inThe two reports detail clude incidents where of- occasions when officers ficers are not directed by either used their Tasers

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or other types of force, which include the use of bean bag rounds, baton strikes, “improvised impact devices,” any injury requiring medical treatment and OC spray, which is more commonly known as pepper spray. The reports show that officers used Tasers 13 times, pepper spray 10

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Why did Kansas lawmakers wait until the last few days of this year’s session to pass so many bills? In a word: Leverage. Page 3A

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