A black-and-white photograph of a smiling, White police woman playing a chase game with children of different races in a trash strewn street.

[A policewoman in the 9th precinct plays games with community children, New York]

Leonard Freed (1929-2006)

Date

1978
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 6 1/8 x 9 in.
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 3/8 in.
Inscriptions

Verso:
u.r. along edge [printed on label]: MAGNUM PHOTOS / [barcode] / PA-OR E00505492
u.r. in black ink: +9[illeg.]
u.l. to l.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.
l.l. in graphite: [underlined] 1978 NEW YORK CITY. USA-- / 78-9-23-27
l.c. stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT
l.l. to l.r. [typed]: Photo.14. (78.9.23/27) a policewoman in the 9th Precinct plays games with community / children in a "public relations programme" designed to dispel their mistrust of the police.
l.c. signed in graphite: Leonard Freed
l.c. stamped in black ink: ©Leonard Freed - Magnum
l.r. stamped in red ink [crossed out in black marker]: Nur leihweise. / Nach Reproduktion sotort zurück / an laenderpress / Hanne Friedrich-Englaender / 4 Düsseldorf 30 / Friedrich-Lau-Straße 26
Credit Line

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

P2019.107
Copyright

© Leonard Freed - Magnum - Brigitte Freed

Location: Off view

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