The DOA

The 21st Precincts, Sergeant Waters. How far is this? That was a shot. He said that. Well, I gotta send the ambulance anyway, but not to be away. You are in the must of room at the 21st Precincts, the nurse 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 124 room at the 21st Precincts. I'll make an notification.

You just said time until the detective gets there. Okay. Yeah. 21st Precinct. Just minds on a map of the city of New York. Both of the 173,000 people who went into the 9th campus that wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st.

And their property gives the job of the men of the 21st Precinct. The 21st, 160 Potomans, 11 Sargents, and 4 Lucanets of whom I'm the boss. My name is Canelli, Frank Canelli. I'm Captain in command of the 21st.

I had been off duty since completing my night tour, and I was not due back on the job until eight the following morning. At midnight the 12 to eight platoon was turned out by Lieutenant Gorman, the death officer. After the 55 men who had patrolled the streets of the precinct during the night marched out the front door of the station house, a quiet settled over

the muster room. For the next 15 or 20 minutes the quiet was broken occasionally by the men of the four to twelve to her coming into the station house, singly and in tears to go off duty. Each saluted the desk as he passed through and rude to the locker room to change to civilian