Freed, Brigitte

Timeline

1950s

Waiting at the airport, Amsterdam

Winter at the Vatican, Rome

1960s

New Orleans, Louisiana

Fritz Kortner, German-Jewish actor and stage director, Munich, West Germany

Mea She'arim, Jerusalem

Israel

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1970s

Homicide in a welfare office. On Friday the woman refused to date her former boyfriend. On the weekend he bought a kitchen knife. Monday morning he arrived in the office and again she refused him. He suddenly plunged the knife into her, New York City

At night in a police station, the minors are set out of the cells. Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mothers' lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. "These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven't gotten to them yet," said the fatherly officer. "They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to the social workers," New York City

Suspects checked for weapons, New York City

Homicide in the garage of a lavish apartment building. This had all the markings of a Mafia killing. It was explained to me that the Mafia hires skilled lawyers to advise on such things. The man had been shot three times in the back of the head. In order to convict, the state would have to find the three guns, the three men that did the killing, and then prove which of the three bullets actually killed the man, and who fired which gun, New York City

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Works

40 artworks

The hotel clerk, the neighbors, his roommate of three years... no one knew a thing about the dead young man in the hotel room -- not even his real name, or where he worked. The man lay fallen back on the bed, eyes fixed to the ceiling, a hypodermic needle in his arm. "How did this guy die?" I asked the cop. "Dirty drugs." I learned later that he had been a police informant, New York City

, 1972

Freed, Brigitte

Timeline

Works

Homicide detectives produce fingerprints from a corpse in the city morgue, New York City

Homicide detectives working around the clock on a double cop killing case. The detective said, "We're working this case on our own time," New York City

An officer once said to me that he always worried about his family at home. Who, he wondered, protected them while he worked nights? It made him diligent, New York City

A 14th Street drug pusher shows one of his many knife wounds, shortly after this photo was taken he was stabbed again, New York City

The 9th Precinct Investigation Unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet. This is the police station used in the TV show "Kojak," New York City

A known drug dealer shows the knife wounds he had received in pursuit of his street trading. In this district the streets are so dangerous that the police officer carries two guns and a switch-blade knife. The small opera glasses are used to watch drug dealers from a distance, New York City

A man taken into custody in a police car, New York City

Police officer with family, Long Island, New York

A police officer and family pose in their fishing boat, parked in their yard, Long Island, New York

A "shooting gallery" raid, New York City

The man lay unconscious. Someone had placed a note on his chest, suggesting the police be called, New York City

A community group accuses a precinct of maltreating a suspect, New York City

A demonstrator refused to stop blocking traffic. The police removed him bodily, New York City

On a warm July day neighborhood children play in a patrol car, New York City

Police officer and bride at their wedding, Long Island, New York