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u.l. to c.r. [typed]: [underlined] New York's "Ninth Precinct Police Station" the home of Kojak. March 79 #79-29 [underlined] / 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 Precinct 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 the 9th / Precinct is the police station where it is filmed. Psycho stabbers roam the dark / streets and since 1967 over 3,000 policemen have been killed in America performing / 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.

c.l. in graphite: [underlined] 1978 NEW YORK CITY. USA.

c.r. [printed on label] [crossed out in graphite]: This print is from / IBL AB / Box 52, S-260 70 Ljungbyhed, Sweden / tel. 0435-407 65 / and should be returned.

l.c. stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT

l.l. to l.r. [typed]: Photo.4. (78.9.16/29a) a known drug pusher shows the knife wounds he had received / in pursuit of his street trading. In this district the streets are / so dangerous that the police officer carries two guns also a switch / blade knife, [illeg.] glasses are used to watch drug pushers / from a distan[illeg.]

l.r. signed in graphite: Leonard Freed

l.r. stamped in black ink: ©Leonard Freed - Magnum

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

© Leonard Freed - Magnum - Brigitte Freed