Leonard Freed | Police Work A demonstrator refused to stop blocking traffic. The police removed him bodily. New York City, USA. 1979. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work Death from overdose in Harlem. New York City, USA. 1972. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work A man taken into custody in a police car. New York City, USA. 1978. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work An officer once said to me that he always worried about his family at home. Who, he wondered, protected them while he worked nights? It made him diligent. New York City, USA. 1978. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work An officer removes his ankle revolver at the gym. New York City, USA. 1979. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work At night in a police station, the minors are set out of the cells. Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mothers' lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. " (...)
Leonard Freed | Police Work From a block of abandoned and burned-out buildings, a young girl called to the passing patrol car. She had been raped---gang-banged by her boyfriend's friends while he looked on. As we went to inve (...)
Leonard Freed | Police Work The emergency operating room. This woman had been stabbed by her boyfriend. The doctor said, "We save their lives, then get sued for the ugly scars that remain." New York City, USA. 1972. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work A 14th Street drug pusher shows one of his many knife wounds, shortly after this photo was taken he was stabbed again. New York City, USA. 1978. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work Homicide in a food store. The clerk was shot dead for the few dollars in the till. New York City, USA. 1972. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed USA. New York City. 1978. The 9th Precinct Investigation Unit with Lieutenant Edward MANET. This is the police station used in the TV show "Kojak." © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work The curator of the police museum holds a trophy out of the "romantic" epoch of gang warfare. USA. New York City. 1979. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work In prison. New York, USA. 1972. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work Trendy, looking tough, but only pussycats. New York City, USA. 1978. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed "There are no pretty girls on my beat. Only the homeless mental patients, the overflow of the social service agencies, the derelicts," said the officer. "The politicians and social workers think if (...)
Leonard Freed | Police Work A policewoman plays with local kids in Harlem. New York City, USA. 1978. © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
Leonard Freed | Police Work Homicide in a welfare office. On Friday the woman refused to date her former boyfriend. On the weekend he bought a kitchen knife. Monday morning he arrived in the office and again she refused him. (...)
