Word: garelik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cops Complain. Accordingly, Lindsay fired the commissioner and brought in Philadelphia's police commissioner, Howard Leary. Two days later, after consulting with city hall, Leary named his own chief inspector, who is the top uniformed police official. The new chief is Sanford Garelik, a Jewish officer with distinguished professional credentials. Even before Lindsay took office, Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who is also Jewish, had recommended Garelik for elevation. Two former police commissioners, both Democrats, took up the tired cry of "political influence." Three uniformed chiefs resigned as soon as Garelik was promoted over their heads. City Council President Frank...
...reason for the outcry was ethnic. Negroes, Puerto Ricans and other minority groups generally approved of Garelik's promotion, though as the first Jew in memory to become chief inspector, he lacked the Hibernian seal of approval from the top-cop echelon. Another related controversy concerned the John Birch Society. At his first press conference, Leary said that policemen could be Birchers if membership did not conflict with their duties. This horrified the liberal Lindsay, whereupon Leary proclaimed that he was "repelled and nauseated" by Birch dogma and would forbid police membership in the society...