8—Friday, April 12, 1968
Judge Edwards' Guide to Police-Community
Relations Is Published by the AJCommittee
A 100-page handbook that may
help to reshape police-community
relations in the U.S., an area
singled out by the Kerner Commis-
sion as "a major—and explosive—
source of grievance, tension and
disorder," was published this week
by the American Jewish Commit-
tee's Institute of Human Relations
Press.
The author, George Edwards,
was Detroit's police commissioner
in 1962-63, and now sits as a Fed-
eral Appeals Court judge in four
Midwestern states.
Copies of the handbook, titled
"The Police on the Urban Fron-
tier" and including a detailed, 31-
point program that would overhaul
both police practices and the pro-
fessional status of the policeman
in American cities, were ordered
Arthur Miller's
Price'—Drama of
Brothers' Conflict
It is a conflict between two
brothers. a dramatic analysis of
recollections of guilt, relationships
with , a parent, the contrast be-
tween t h e suc-
cessful and self-
sacrificing — and
in "The Price"
by Arthur Miller,
now being staged
in New York, we
a r e presented
with psychologi-
cal themes that
may be familiar
to the audience
and is certain to
arouse much
thought.
The book was
oublished by Vik-
ing Press and it
Miller reads as fasci-
natingly as the actors portray the
elements of discourse involved in
an inheritance, in one's need for
it and the other's scheming to
benefit from its allocation.
One of the brothers became a
successful physician who also
made investments in n u r s in g
homes: the other became a police-
man. The latter still has the pos-
sessions, he is about to sell them
to a Jewish purchaser for $1,100,
when the doctor appears on the
scene.
The price is raised by $50, but
that's not the point. The doctor
schemed: why not have the
articles valued at $25,000, give
them as a gift, then, on the basis
of tax deductions, benefit from
the gain?
The policeman rejects the offer.
Then commence the recollections,
the guilt, the rebuke to the poorer
one that he should have continued
his studies. It develops that the
father did have a little money. The
frustrations are distressing. The
dialogue. tyically dramatic in Mil-
ler's fashion, is thought-provoking.
The Jewish character, Solomon,
provides interest with his haggling,
but in a natural way of a buyer
who desires to make a good deal
and in the course of the discussion
he says he is 90, makes fantastic
claims, says he was an actor and
an acrobat, and when the police-
man says he "never heard of a
Jewish acrobat," Solomon reminds
him: "What's the matter with
Jacob. he wasn't a wrestler?—
wrestled with the angel?"
There is more humor and much
more of pathos in a well developed
theme.
Amman Charges Israel
Sent Troops to Vietnam
JERUSALEM (ZINS)—The Am-
man television station announced
that Israel has sent soldiers to
Vietnam to help relieve the pres-
sure on American forces trapped
in Khesanh.
It broadcast the "startling news"
this week. The announcer was un-
able to give "details," but claimed
that his "flash" was based on
"well-informed sources."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
B-G Attends Dedication of School Honoring Wife
BEERSHEBA (JTA) — A school mer Prime Minister Ben-Gurion.
for nurses was named in memory
The Israeli lea de r, wearing
of the late Paula Ben-Gurion at
As of now, Judge Edwards con- ceremonies Sunday at the Negev khaki and his familiar open col-
tinues, the police are not prepared central hospital attended by for- lar, spoke briefly to the students.
to meet this challenge. He says:
"American police forces are im-
possibly ill-equipped in numbers,
training, weaponry and program,
and often in attitudes, to deal with
the problems of this year and the
years to come."
Judge Edwards analyzes De-
troit's 1967 riot, attributing its
"ferocity and extent" to three
basic causes: (a) "society's fail-
ure to make the promise of equal-
ity for Negroes a reality;" (b) the
failure of the police department
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to employ its resources promptly
enough and firmly enough when
the trouble began: (c) "the pat-
tern of fire bombing. which turned
a local riot into a city-wide con-
flagration," although he adds. that
"there is no hard evidence that
the Detroit riot as a whole was
planned."
prior to publica-
tion by the Inter-
national Associa-
tion of Chiefs of
Police as well as
by such groups
as the National
Council on Crime
and Delinquency.
the Southern Re-
gional Council,
the National As-
sociation for the
Advancement of
Colored People
and the National
Urban League. Judge Edwards
Judge Edwards, of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-
cuit Court, holds that the "inter-
mittent warfare" between police-
men and poor Negroes in most
American cities is largely the re-
sult of police prejudice and high-
handedness. In Negro areas, he
says, police all too often "tend to
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measured by the great number of
present-day police officers who in-
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times to) Negro citizens." Judge
EdwardS cites a study by the Pres-
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Force on Police, which found 72
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