The Fifth District Crime Fighter

Destination Freedom. Destination Freedom. Promotizations of the great democratic traditions of the Negro people is brought to you by Station WMAQ as a part of the pageant of history and of America's own, Destination Freedom. In the carefully kept annals of law enforcement, UNIC Germany is recorded as the largest police district in the world.

The Fifth District, Wal-Bash Avenue Station in Chicago, is recorded as second largest, and busiest. And trusted with the gigantic job of administration in the Fifth District is Kentucky-worn police veteran Captain Kinsey Blueett. In a chapter entitled, Crime Fighter, Destination Freedom brings you the Fifth District story.

It was a warm, peaceful summer day in the windows, but down the talk was lazy. My squad was cruising along, circulating up and down the district like the blood in the man's veins. 72 car here station.

I knew the district like in a little Catholic study book. This book was a teaming Burnley Fifth Police District, in territory one of the smallest, in populations bigger than many of the citizens of the world.

200,000 square miles of slums and semi slums, flank apartments and shaky shacks in countless churches, 18 schools, seven theaters, one hospital, 2,000 business enterprises, an orphanage, and a YWCA. All this I knew by heart. 88, 57, 77, very Avenue, a man causing a disturbance on the second floor. 88, 51, 72. Oh, when my car number 88 got a call that was on the

day in 1944. It was just at the time for me to report into the station. The other officers left to answer it. Oh, here you are, Lieutenant. Sorry, Lieutenant. Come along for the ride. You're going to miss a nice button to serve it.