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Case of the Sailor's Family

21st Precinct · August 4, 1953 · 27 min · 4,390 words

The transcript of “Case of the Sailor's Family”, an episode of 21st Precinct first broadcast August 4, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). 21st Precinct plays 21st Precinct free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Twenty-first precinct starting climb. What? How do you know something's wrong? How many days haven't you seen him? How do you know he's been in the apartment all that time? You are in the mud, the room at the twenty-first precinct.

The mayor of the center. A call is coming through. You will follow the action taken pursuant to that call from this minute until the final report is written in the one-twenty-four room at the twenty-first precinct.

the average key to get in. What makes you sure has been bolded from the inside? Alright. I'll send the officers around to have a look. Where can they find you? Alright. Just stay there. I'll send them right over.

Twenty-first precinct. It's just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the nine-tenths of a square mile between Fifth Avenue and the East River. would know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st.

Whether they know it or not, the security of their persons, their homes and their property is my job. My job and the job of the 160 patrolman, 11 sergeants and 4 lieutenants are to mine the boss.

My name is Canelli, Frank Canelli. I'm captain in command of the 21st. What makes the city not building, not subway, is not business? People make a city. from dawn to midnight from midnight to dawn the rich and the poor and the good and the bad poor their lives together and stir up the city as in the

21st seven days a week it was Sunday morning and raining I was on patrol when the chief inspector visited the precinct in response to a radio signal I returned to the house and conferred with the chief inspector the commander of the uniform force for 35 minutes regarding conditions in the precinct when the chief rose to leave I walked outside with him to his car he had stopped raining

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