| Show - 11UMMMM AIIIMIONMEIMEMEIMP 1 r ' CATCH A qk CROOKcontinued Although he was raised in his moth- er's Methodist faith Greenberg became 1 a practicing Jew after working in the movement of the 1960s and being impressed by the commitment of the Jewish community to the struggle for equality He is saddened by the division that has sprung up in recent years Cti (Z"' k:' "4 0 e i ' 1 4-- : - civil-ri- ghts 11 l'q i 71 11 11411111 41111 A - -- - ' ' — ------ ---- 2 ' 0 ' 0 - - li I hi r tu Iiottit l'Itt'11'IJ t 1 I movement also led The civil-righGreenberg into police work "I was on the picket lines facing cops every day" he says "You'd shout at them for three weeks and they'd shout at you but after a while you got to know them on a different basis One cop said to me 'You don't like the way we're doing things? Why don't you become a cop yourself? Change the system' So I did' Today Greenberg is changing the system in Mobile With a rising crime rate and a depressed economy Mobile's leaders knew they needed a different approach "I heard Reuben talk in Charleston three years ago" Mayor Michael Dow says "My ideas of modem law enforcement were changed forever" When Dow was elected last year he tried to persuade Greenberg to move to Mobile but the chief had put down roots in South Carolina His wife Sarah a teacher works in Charleston and wanted to stay Fmally a plan was worked out under which Mobile "borrowed" Chief Greenberg for six months "We're twice the size of Charleston" says Rod Kennedy one of the leaders of Dow's Economic Revival Committee "I think he really wanted to see if his methods would work in a city this size Believe me his methods work" he arrived in Mobile Green- beOnce able to cut violent crime in the first housing project he tackled by 100 percent—literally to nothing He took cops out of office jobs and put them on to 11111)IIHzli i i t ' t ii111:'tt : i ( 1 I 1 f i 1 I ) i tT - ) L:::1: :i 41l ! ' ---- c-- LOW REFRESH' - G - MEN THOL lit x tri r t3 1 0 --- $1 0 - i IR :3 t'11 0 0 ! '1 : iiVi i z1 ! iltolzFiitti11 jpIgr t k s — e 1( 1 eti 10 0Ps AR M E N - THot c 4110 VVVV Intomerwmmnamiar -annalloms -3I1I D 4 11 1 livthinhie:ithostreepac:rerTtsa:sEllilthnivIlleyitsteparldicfcsemhelioeufpnfiguairttyctirmmweeptnbhoetarsi t 1 as I - 011521 G 0 11 Sine ' 1 - - SURGEON GENERAL'S L WARNING: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer Heart Disease Emphysema 0 And May Complicate Pregnancy h d'irocoe T 011-- P a 1 5 - ts Vilr?'''!'idi ittt!liElii!" i --- 1 f v today" 4 tijIfit'll!t!!1 t d d relationship" Greenberg says "It didn't happen just by chance It was started by certain militant blacks This never would have happened if Dr Martin Luther King had not been assassinated We don't have that kind of leader that kind of vision i A 1 --”" -- -- C bewatswaeceonnsctheie twntioouesthentifcongrotoudepsstros1Tyhthere ' 1111 I' 7 ihtir l'ty rtPik : 1 previously given up for lost "It looks like we've doubled our police force but we haven't added anybody" Kennedy says "People are tickled to death by what he's done Although he went home to Charleston this summer Greenberg will probably return to Mobile frequently as a consultant For him his very presence in Mobile is a sign that the world of his childhood has changed "The mere fact I'm here means that a certain philosophy has lost" be says "and another philosophy has won and won big" pi 1111111111111111111 jPAGE 14 SEPTEMRER 2 1990' PARADE MAGAZINE ' 1 E 1 t ( t - I - t i i i 1 4 |
