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46th Precinct

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Photographing on a near daily basis, and drawn by an impulse to document the struggles for survival and everyday life close to home, Ángel Franco, a freelance photographer at the time who was as accustomed to covering wars in Latin America as news stories in New York, accompanied officers and detectives from New York's famed 46th precinct in the west Central Bronx over a period of five years.

From 1979 to 1984, and on a handshake basis with the police he was covering,...
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Photographing on a near daily basis, and drawn by an impulse to document the struggles for survival and everyday life close to home, Ángel Franco, a freelance photographer at the time who was as accustomed to covering wars in Latin America as news stories in New York, accompanied officers and detectives from New York's famed 46th precinct in the west Central Bronx over a period of five years.

From 1979 to 1984, and on a handshake basis with the police he was covering, Franco rode with them as they responded to robberies, muggings, murders, suicide attempts, assaults, health emergencies involving children and infants, and nearly every type of imaginable situation they would encounter.

The precinct which had a reputation as one of the most besieged in the city with more detectives than any other in the borough, earned the name "The Alamo" and was close to the streets in which the photographer lived and grew up and knew well. In that sense the project was personally cathartic. It also yielded a staggering body of work which offers an unvarnished and unflinching glimpse into the realities of urban police work at that time.
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