Wednesday, September 24, 1975 daily nebraskan paga 13
Verdict delayed
City Councilmen Max Denney and John
Robinson will have to' wait another week
before they know if the Council will adopt
their police review board proposal.
The City Council decided to wait until
its Sept. 27th meeting to vote on the com-
The proposed seven-member board
would be an advisory group.
Any complaints about the Lincoln Po-
on police review board proposo
hce Dept. (LPD) frist would go to the LPD
for a report and then, if the board decides
to hold a hearing on a complaint, recom
mendations would" be made to the mayor.
An attempt by Denney to delay the
vote for six weeks until the new police
chief, George Hansen, arrives and can ex
press his views of the proposals was
defeated 5-1.
Appearing at the meeting against the
proposal was James Hill, president of the
LPD union, who said he represented the
union's nine-member executive board.
"We (the union) maintain there is no
need for a police review board in Lincoln,"
Hill said.
There is no graft or corruption in LPD,
he said, and complaints should be handled
internally either through an internal affairs
Student Regent Bellows
Football ticket raff le hit opposition
A UNL football ticket rafile sponsored
by University ot Neorasica at umana
(UNO) Student Regent Clint Bellows has
run into opposition and Bellows can't
understand why.
"I've been disappointed and disil
lusioned," Bellows said this week. "I've
still got some questions myself as to what
and why some people have decided to open
an investigation into the raffle."
Bellows rafile was criticized last week
by Douglas County Atty. Donald Knowles
a "ai advised" and possibly illegal.
Bellows said he was raffling off eight of
the ten tickets to UNL football games that
he is allowed to buy because he is a regent.
Regents are given two tickets and have the
option to buy 10 more.
According to Bellows, he was going to
use the proceeds above the cost of the
tickets to establish a scholarshio fund for
UNO students and a training table meals
program for UNO athletes.
Two of Bellows' 10 tickets were given in
a friend who loaned him the $507.50 to.
buy the additional tickets.
"The raffle had proceeded well the first
week," Bellows said. 'Then somebody ob
viously blew the whistle on us."
"I don't want to do anything wrong,"
he said. "I don't think they can tell me I
did anything illegal. There are a lot of raf
fles going on that probably wouldn't quali
fy as a non-profit charity cause as much as
ours did."
He said that he had gotten an attorney's
opinion indicating that the raffle was legal
before starting the raffle.
The question of illegality reportedly
concerns the charitable nature of the raffle
and the definition of proceeds.
Nebraska Atty. Gen. Paul Douglas said
that proceeds include all the income from
the sales of raffle tickets in order for it to
be legal.
"IVe got bad feelings about the com
plaints," Bellows said. "Rarely does
anyone my age and with my economic
backing get a chance to pull something like
this off."
"I feel sorry for whoever did it (blew
the whistle on the raffle). They're cheating
the students on this campus out of the
money from the raffle."
UNO Chancellor Ronald Roskens has
said it is not a university matter and his
only reported comment has been that he
has seen other similar raffles conducted
before without complaints.
office or an ombudsman.
Hill said he had researched other cities
which have police boards and found that
police became afraid to perform their
duties because of consequences.
Hill also suggested the Council defer
action on the proposal until Hansen'arrives.
Hill said Hansen should be entitled to voice
an opinion on the proposal.
Court authority
Eric James, LPD unio.i attorney, also
opposed the proposal. Ha said the police
board wpuld act as a court and "could all
but sentence a man."
James said the ordinance could hurt
LPD because it would be similar to a court,
eliminate internal discipline within the de
partment, inhibit action by officers and
inject politics and preferential treatment
into police work.
If the board does not get complaints, it
will try to find problems that do not exist
to justify its existence, he said.
Police Community Relations Officer
Leighton Wessel, who said he was speaking
as a citizen and not as a Police Dept.
spokesman, said a review board "by its
nature is punitive."
Wessel said there are more positive ways
to obtain citizen ideas, such as "creating a
vigorous internal system within the depart
ment itself."
Robinson had proposed a nine-member
board be set up under the Council to hear
all complaints. Denney has proposed creat
ing a five-member board, with the mayor
deciding which cases should be heard.
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