Charleston, South Carolina

Government

• Mayor: Joseph P. Riley, Jr.
• Mayor Pro Tempore: Deborah Morinelli
• Council Members:

:*Henry B. Fishburne, Jr.

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:*Deborah Morinelli

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:*James Lewis, Jr.

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:*Jimmy S. Gallant, III

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:*Wendell G. Gilliard

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:*Louis L. Waring

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:*Yvonne D. Evans

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:*Paul Tinkler

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:*Larry D. Shirley

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:*Anne Frances Bleecker

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:*G. Robert George

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• Fire Chief: Russel Thomas
• Police Chief: previously Reuben Greenberg ? (He resigned August 12, 2005 for unspecified health reasons at the recommendation of his personal doctor, Dr. Allen Rashford. Chief Greenberg had come under fire recently because of actions related to his temper.) Lt. Colonel Edward Hethington is Interim Chief. Greenberg, who served as Charleston's Chief of Police for twenty-three years, has occasionally made national news, if nothing else than for the most basic facts of his background and their uncommon combination in one person (Texan, African American, and Orthodox Jewish), which has caused consternation in 60 Minutes correspondents (who devoted a segment to him) and Zulus (a Zulu guard is said to have barred him from entering a South African synagogue, insisting that "this place is just for Jewish people, sir" http://www.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200508180822.asp) alike. Greenberg is generally credited with creating a polite police force that kept police brutality well in check even as it developed a visible presence in community policing and a significant reductions in crime rates, which in turn is sometimes credited as an influence on the measures pursued by New York City under Rudolph Guiliani's administration.