Jaydie Putterman & Rosalynde LesurPolice (dedicated)

This book, a gripping documentary of two New York City policemen in Manhattan's Midtown South precinct, offers a graphic inside look at both their personal and working lives. For six months, the authors followed the two patrolmen, recording and photographing them in action as they worked the richly varied neighborhoods around Times Square. Through Jaydie Putterman's lens the reader sees this dense urban landscape not only from the patrol car window, but also on the streets, in buildings, in the back rooms of the station house, at the sites of crimes, and even in the homes of both criminal and victim. We follow the two patrolmen as they respond to calls both trivial and dangerous, comic and desperate. In the text, they reflect on their experiences, their careers as policemen: their ambitions, their gripes, their insights into the world through which they move. We observe them in the heat of action - during robberies, violence, chases, medical emergencies, arrests - and also stay with them when they go off duty