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21st Precinct Sergeant Land. Who shot? So where is this? Wait a minute. Don't talk so fast now. That's one four eight seven. Is that right? Yeah, in the restaurant. You are in the must-a-room at the 21st 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 i have some of the officers right over yeah right away you just wait for a show them where it is just wait right there twenty-first precinct

it's just blind on a map of the city of new york most of the one hundred seventy three thousand people wedged into the nine tenths of the square mile between fifty thousand e one d e-square wouldn't know if you ask them that they lived or worked in the twenty-first whether they know it or not the security of their homes their persons and their

property is the job of the men of the 21st Precinct. The 21st, 160 patrolman, 11th sergeant, San Forlu Tenant of Umaan, LaBaud. My name is Cronan, Vincent P. Cronan. I'm captain and command of the 21st Precinct. I was doing night duty 4 p.m.

to 8 a.m. It had been raining hard when I came on the job and it continued to rain throughout the night. After I turned out the platoon for the 12th to wait for it At midnight, I went out on patrol of the precinct in sector car number three.

I returned to the station house at 3.30 a.m. to read and sign reports and communications. I caught up generally with the voluminous paperwork that plagues commanding officers. Because he's on the job more than 16 consecutive hours when he works night duty, it is both permitted and recommended that the precinct commander get some rest during the early hours