The Museum

I'm a shooting where? At the middle of the year more than here than here then. What was the one that's shooting? Would I have any police officers there? I transferred to the room at the 21st Precinct, the nerve center.

A call is coming through. You will follow the action taken for someone to that call from this minute until the final report is written in the 124 room at the 21st Precinct. Alright, I'll send you officers right over there.

Yeah, right away. It's just lines on the map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the 910th 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 properties is a job of the men. I'm 160 patrolmen, 11 sergeants, and four little kennets of whom I am the boss.

My name is Kenelli, Frank Kenelli. I'm Captain in command of the 21st. I was working my night tour, 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. After I turned off the platoon and the men marched out the front door to take over their post, Lieutenant Matt King, commanding officer of the 21st Detective Squad, came downstairs

to confer with me in connection with several pistol license renewal applications that were still pending. According to the manual of procedure, each application for renewal must be investigated annually by both the commanding officer and the detective squad commander of the precinct in which the applicant provides or is employed.

And they must recommend either approval or disapproval. The gun law of the state of New York is perhaps practiced in the country, and licenses are granted only upon absolute proof of necessity and good character of the applicant.