The Jet
21st Precinct · October 6, 1954 · 28 min · 1,939 words
The transcript of “The Jet”, an episode of 21st Precinct first broadcast October 6, 1954. 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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What if I'm breathing sergeant waters away them and what the address? Yeah, now what's the trouble there? There's gas leaking tomorrow problem. How do you know it's leaking? Yeah Yeah You are in the must have 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 124 room at the 21st precinct.
Alright, the officers will be right over there. Right away, yeah. You wait outside for them and show them where you think it is. 173,000 people, registered to the 9th, 10th, they lived or worked in the 21st.
of their whole, the best. And four lieutenants of whom I am the boss. My name is Connelly, Frank Connelly. I'm Captain in command of the Twenty-first. I was working my night tour at four PM to eight AM.
It had been a busy night in the precinct. Before midnight there was a three alarm fire in a tenement house on 76th Street, a mugging in the 77th Street Station of the Lexington Avenue Subway, a pedestrian struck by an automobile on Park Avenue, and an armed robbery of a bar and grill on Third Avenue.
With the exception of the mugging, in which case the victim took a cab to the station house, I had rolled on each of these calls. Following the last, the armed robbery, I got into sector car number two in which I was on patrol as recorder.
I instructed the operator, patrolman Daniel Mercado, to return to the station house, and he received in that direction under the elst of so long Third Avenue. Hello Captain. When he said they were 17 or 18 years old.
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