The Brother

Twenty-first preaching sergeant waters. Who shot? Who? Well, where? All right, just take it easy. So, look, I can understand you. Now, where is it? Yeah. Yeah? You're in the must of room at the twenty-first precinct, the nerve 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. Alright, don't worry about that part of it, we'll take care of it.

Yeah, we'll send the ambulance right away, that's right. Right away. 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 the square mile between Fifth Avenue and the East River wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st.

Whether they know it or not, the security of their homes, their persons and their property is the job of the men of the twenty first precinct the twenty first one hundred sixty patrolman eleven sergeants and four lieutenants of whom i'm the boss my name is canali frank canali i'm captain in command of the twenty first

i was working my night tour for p m to eight a m it was a dark foggy night and between dusk and midnight we were plagued with all mobile accidents two pedestrians were struck by cars one on York Avenue and one on Lexington. Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition. Out on patrol of the precinct, I instructed my operator, Patrolman Eismann,

to proceed through the street slowly and with extreme caution. It was impossible to see clearly for a distance of 50 feet ahead. At midnight I returned to the station house to turn out the platoon for the 12 to 8 tour. The 52 men who would patrol the streets of the precinct on post and insecticides for the next eight hours were assembled before me in