THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 18 Friday, February 8, 1980 Civil Service Group Rebuts Charge That Police Test Was Biased NEW YORK (JTA) — An expert in recruitment of Jews for the city's police de- partment declared, in re- buttal to a U.S. District Court ruling that the police examination last June dis- criminated against blacks and Hispanics, that it was ANKERS the MAGICIAN PARTIES Adult & Children 968-0038 impossible to devise a test which would meet Civil Service standards and still assure that a given propor- tion of test-takers from minority groups would pass. Louis Weiser, a retired police officer who is president of the Council of Jewish Organizations in Civil Service, made that comment at a press confer- ence convened at the America-Israel Friendship House in New York by a co- alition representing eight ethnic police and civil serv- Charles J. 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The legal battle began ciation, the Shomrim when the Guardians Asso- Society and the Eastern Or- ciation, representing black thodox St. Paul Society — police officers, and the His- all made up of police officers panic Society of Police Offi- — and the Council ofJewish cers filed suit in federal Organizations in Civil Serv- court in Manhattan, charg- ice, the National Confer- ing that the June examina- ence of Shomrim Societies, tion was biased against and the Grand Council of minority group members Steuben Societies in Civil who were at a disadvantage Service. Weiser also pointed out, because of the allegedly in- ferior education they had at the press conference, that received in city public the police department had "extraordinary taken schools. The city, in a brief sub- measures" itian effort to as- mitted on Jan. 14 to the fed- sure that the June test was eral Court of Appeals for the not only job-related but also Second District, asked the non-discriminatory and cul- Appeals Court to stay Car- turally unbiased. He said the examination ter's preliminary injunc- tion. The Appeals Court re- was based on an eighth- fused, but did promise to grade reading level, as cer- speed up a hearing on the tified by education experts, city's appeal and set a date though the test materials for that hearing for Feb. 5. which every recruit must Weiser said a friend- pass at the Police Academy of-the-court brief from are at college level the coalition had been standards. He said that among the accepted by the Appeals Court. The brief was "extraordinary meas- ures" were job studies and study of perform- ance records to deter- mine essential qualities for effective performance by police officers. He added that the recruit- ment and training proc- ess for police last year was praised by both the Guardians Association and the Hispanic Society as far back as last April. The police department reported that 36,747 per- sons took the test and 13,749 passed it. Weiser said proof of the test's fairness was the fact that according to figures submitted by the Guardians Association and the Hispanic Society, more than 2,000 minority candidates passed the test, represent- ing 15.5 percent of the total number of passing candi- dates. FREEDOM CLEANERS 24681 Coolidge /2 blk. S. of 10 Mile 1 545-1300 Legislator Blames Lebanon Suffering on Act of Hussein WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Toby Moffett (D- Conn.), told the House that Uebanon's "suffering be- gan" after King Hussein of Jordan "expelled" a half million Palestinians who found haven in Lebanon. He also reported that on a recent Congressional fact- finding mission to the Mid- dle East which he headed, he found some Palestinian mayors and professionals on the West Bank who would like to join in the Camp David peace process. Moffett, who is himself of Lebanese descent, headed the first Congressional mis- sion to the Middle East to focus on Lebanon's prob- lems. The group visited Syria and Israel in addition to Lebanon. Describing the situa- tion he found in Lebanon, Moffett said that Chris- tian rule, mandated by the Lebanese constitu- tion, "caused deep re- sentment in Lebanon's Moslem circles long be- fore the current strife. Then," he added, "a half million Palestinians ex- pelled by Jordan's King Hussein landed on Leba- non's doorstep. And the country's suffering be- gan, the consequence of its own openness, its generosity and its free society." The Congressman noted that "In 1975 the battles erupted, Palestinians against Christians. Then Syria sent in its 'peace- keeping force,' fighting first with the Palestinians and later with the Christians. So far it has cost more than 70,000 lives. Some of them, I found, were my relatives." Moffett emphasized that a communications gap exists in the Middle East. "What is probably our most lasting impression," he said referring to his delegation's 16-day tour of Lebanon, Syria and Israel, "is the lack of communication. The iso- lation of one country from another — not just geo- graphically but leader-to- leader. The Syrians do not seem to realize the bitteiness against them in Lebanon; the Israeli leaders and citi- zens show incredible curios- ity about Palestine Libera- tion Organization leader Yasir Arafat. There is a wide gulf between the Palestinians and Israelis on the West Bank," he said. AL KLINE • DALGLEISH CADILLAC 6160 CASS AVE. 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