* Gerald S. Arenberg; Organized Police Chiefs Group

Gerald S. Arenberg, 70, organizer of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police. Arenberg, long a spokesman for police needs and policies nationwide, helped found the American Federation of Police in 1966, and in 1978 organized the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police. As its executive director, he campaigned for equipping every officer in the nation with an armored vest and organized an annual memorial for those killed on duty the previous year. He pushed for cities to make it easier for officers to live in the neighborhoods they police. Arenberg opened the American Police Hall of Fame and Museum in 1960 in Port Charlotte in southwestern Florida as a memorial to officers killed in the line of duty. It was moved in 1990 to a former FBI building in Miami. Arenberg grew up in Chicago and at 21 became a sheriff’s deputy in Cook County. At 30, he became chief of police in the Chicago-area village of Golf. On Nov. 16 in Miami of cancer.