For two years, she had unprecedented access to the NYPD and spent 'entire days touring the streets and entire nights drinking with the men and women of the NYPD,' according to press release for her book, Street Cops, which has been recently reprinted. Above, an image from her book in which police officers carry a man out of a building +21 Photographer Jill Freedman (1939-2019) stepped into the bedlam of New York City during its most turbulent decades - the 1970s and '80s - to document its firefighters, cops and people. 'What makes you go riding around Harlem or the South Bronx in the middle of the night?' Photographer Jill Freedman (1939-2019) stepped into the bedlam of New York City during its most turbulent decades - the 1970s and '80s - to document its firefighters, cops and people. What makes you go out looking?' Freedman wrote in Street Cops, her book that was first published in 1981 and recently reissued, according to the New Yorker. Hawk Newsome, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter in New York, said there would be 'riots,' 'fire' and 'bloodshed' if the controversial units, involved in the killings of Eric Garner, Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo, return to the city's streets. Incoming mayor Eric Adams, a former cop himself, has said he would once again put plainclothes police on the streets again - anti-crime units that were disbanded after last year's defund the police protests in wake of the murder of George Floyd. And while there has been a drop in murders, homicides are still higher than in 20. Crime rates continue to rise, according to NYPD's latest numbers for October: overall crime rose 11.2 percent, robbery increased by 15.8 percent and felony assault jumped by 13.8 percent. During the pandemic and ensuing shutdown, crime spiked in the city. 'I set out to deglamorize violence,' Freedman once said. With unprecedented access to two NYPD's precincts - Midtown South of Times Square and Penn Station, and the Ninth Precinct of the East Village - Freedman was there when police made arrests, engaged with communities, and to document the camaraderie among cops. Photographer Jill Freedman (1939 to 2019) was there to capture the good, bad and the ugly of New York City during the 1970s and '80s. The gritty black-and-white photographs speak to a time of violence, soaring crimes, budget problems and cuts, and several calamities New York City faced: fiscal, a burgeoning HIV/AIDS crisis, and the scourge of crack cocaine infesting neighborhoods.
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