Post Number Seven

three things I can climb in the basement where three four oh who shot him who is he dead he's not dead who's there I can burn there you are in the must of room at the 21st precinct the nerve center of 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 person right out in the name of emergency squad for what who said so okay tell them our policy be to send a yes be cut yeah right away twenty first precinct it's just lines on a map of the city of new york

most of the hundred and seventy three thousand people wedged into the nine tenths of the square mile between fifth avenue and east river wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the twenty first whether they know it or not the security of their persons their homes and their property is my job

my job in the job of a hundred sixty patrolman eleven sergeant and four lieutenant for whom i am the boss my name is canelli frank canelli i'm captain in command of the twenty first what makes the city not building not subway 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. I was in the twenty-first, even on a quiet night. I was working my 60-M to 8 AM tour. At ten after I'd finished reading and signing the reports and communications that had accumulated, I investigated two minor complaints about conditions in the precinct that had been brought to my attention. At midnight I turned out to platoon