Sanford Garelick, New York City’s first Jewish chief inspector, the highest uniformed officer at the time, died Nov. 19 at 93.

Garelick was also a city council president, a mayoral candidate, chief of the transit police and security director for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

An old friend, Jay Mazur, told the New York Times, “He was a Jewish cop, so nothing human was alien to him.” — jta

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