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For Leonard Freed, New York’s police officers were proletarian heroes.

iven the current national debate about police brutality and institutionalized racism, spurred by countless viral videos showing white police officers assaulting unarmed Black people, it is a bit of a shock to discover that Leonard Freed’s classic photobook (1980), an in-depth study of New York cops

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