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The Wichita Police Department was created on April 13, 1871. A notable figure in the Department’s history was O.W. Wilson, who was considered an innovative police reformer. Wilson was credited with starting the Criminal Justice Program at Wichita State University, previously called the Municipal University of Wichita in 1937.
At the time of the incident, Tyler Rai Barriss was a 25-year-old homeless man living in Los Angeles, California.Known online as "SWAuTistic", he had a criminal record including domestic violence, [3] and had served 16 months in Los Angeles County Jail for making false bomb threats against KABC-TV, an elementary school in Los Angeles, and a middle school in Granada Hills.
Wichita police officer Justin Rapp, who shot and killed unarmed Andrew Finch in 2017, told a police supervisor that if he ever ran into Finch’s mother, he would tell her to “get over it,” a ...
[30] In October 2020, a 59-year-old was arrested for threatening to kidnap and murder Mayor of Wichita Brandon Whipple over a local mask mandate. [ 31 ] In August 2020, The Hill reported that case rates had lessened in a sample of 15 counties that did not opt out of the mask mandate. [ 32 ]
The 2020 United States census counted 397,532 people, 154,683 households, and 92,969 families in Wichita. The population density was 2,454.1 per square mile (947.5/km 2). There were 172,801 housing units at an average density of 1,066.7 per square mile (411.9/km 2). [5]
The Wichita Massacre, also known as the Wichita Horror, was a week-long violent crime spree perpetrated by brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr, in the city of Wichita, Kansas, between December 8 and 15, 2000. Five people were killed, and two people, a man and a woman, were severely wounded.
In south-central Kansas, the Wichita metropolitan area is home to more than 600,000 people. [61] Wichita is the largest city in the state in terms of both land area and population. 'The Air Capital' is a major manufacturing center for the aircraft industry and the home of Wichita State University .
Lizzy’s Lounge, 1544 S. Ida in Wichita — One violation during a July 13 routine inspection. Cited for using the wrong testing strips to measure the strength of Quaternary sanitizer.