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The first building for the Lawrence Police Department was established in 1866, when the agency was founded. Around 1900 the department had a second location at the old city hall building. Between 1910 and 1920, the LPD maintained two vehicles and had four sworn police officers. In 1936, new uniforms were acquired for LPD officers.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Kansas.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 371 law enforcement agencies employing 7,450 sworn police officers, about 266 for each 100,000 residents.
A Lawrence, Kansas, police K-9 handler and his partner Shadow found roughly 33 pounds of methamphetamine and 1.26 pounds of cocaine in luggage at a transportation facility.
Police are asking the public for help locating a suspect who allegedly shot and killed an 18-year-old in Lawrence. Officers responded to the shooting around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday at a home in the ...
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Lawrence was the first city in Kansas to enact an ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (enacted in 1995, after a campaign called Simply Equal). On October 4, 2011, Lawrence became the first city in Kansas to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity with the passage of City Ordinance No. 8672. [240]
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On July 13, 2016, we published a database of more than 800 deaths that took place in jails and police lockups in the previous year. The government doesn't release this kind of data, and jails often aren't required to give out information about people who die in their custody, so we had to dig deep.