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u.l. to c.r. [typed]: [underlined] New York's "Ninth Precinct Police Station" the home of Kojak. March 79[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 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 79-29

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

l.l. [printed on label]: [between to horizontal lines] [crossed out with black marker] PALAUTETAAN / SUOMEN KUVAPALVELU OY Hietalahdenranta 13, 00180 / Helsinki 18

l.c. in blue ink: USA/ / POLIISI

l.r. stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT

l.r. signed in graphite: Leonard Freed

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

l.l. to l.r. [typed]: Photo.10. (78.9.11/29a) under his shirt Officer Steve Krajci puts on a / bullet proof vest as he prepares to make his rounds to stake out / a nearby building.

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

© Leonard Freed - Magnum - Brigitte Freed