Leonard Freed: Policework in Photographs
By Leslie Gilbert Elman
January 10, 2012It’s a scorching hot day in New York City, circa 1978. A female police officer, her gun holstered but visible, chases a little kid—he can’t be more than seven or eight—on a Harlem street. The other neighborhood kids watch open-mouthed as the cop tries to run down their pal. The cop? She’s just grinning, loving…