A black-and-white photograph of the bare back and handcuffed hands of a White man in the back seat of a police car.

[A handcuffed suspect sits in the back of a police car after arrest]

Leonard Freed (1929-2006)

Date

1978
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 8 7/8 x 6 in.
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 6 in.
Inscriptions

Verso:
u.l. to c.r. [typed]: [underlined] New York's "Ninth Precinct Police Station" the home of Kojak. March 79[underlined] -29 [in blue ink] / The 9th Precinct runs from 14th Street down Houston and Broadway to the / East River, the area is an ugly and terrifying place which is the home of / the terrorists of the Puerto Rican F.A.L.N., the Black Liberation Army, / and HQ of NY's Hell's Angels. It is the worst block in the city, with its / stinking tenements with no heat, burnt out buildings, drunken derelicts / and junkies, muggers and rapists. You would not want to be in the 9th Pre- / cinct after dark if you could help it. To TV viewers around the world, / Kojak has brought them the realities of crime in the big cities, also / this police station is where Kojak is filmed. Psycho stabbers roam the / dark streets and since 1967 over 3,000 policemen have been killed in / America in the performance of their duties, and not one perpetrator has / gone to the electric chair. In NY alone there are over 2,000 homicides / a year and some cops feel it's time for a return to vigilantes and / frontier justice. / (NY Times Magazine 21 January 1979) Photos by Leonard Freed/MAGNUM D 79-2
c.l. in graphite: [underlined] 1978 NEW YORK CITY. USA. 78-9-48-34A
c.r. typed on yellow label: AGENZIA CONTRASTO [strike through with black marker]
l.l. in blue ink: GIUST./LEG./
l.r. in blue ink [inside circle]: 6 MAR '93
l.l. in red ink [vertically]: 95%
l.l. to l.r. [typed]: Photo.20. (78.9.48/34a) a handcuffed suspect sits in the back of a policecar / after arrest.
l.r. signed in graphite: Leonard Freed
l.c. stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT
l.r. stamped in black ink: ©Leonard Freed - Magnum
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Brigitte Freed
Accession Number

P2019.112
Copyright

© Leonard Freed - Magnum - Brigitte Freed

Location: Off view

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