Description

This realistic New York police radio drama was
broadcast by CBS from 1953 to 1956 as a sustained show. This program is right up there with Dragnet, and it presented true cases from the 21st Precinct in New York. The opening of the series sets the theme, "21st Precinct, just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000
people wedged into the 9 tenths of a square mile between 5th avenue and the East River wouldn't
know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st. Whether they know it or not the
security of their persons their homes and property is my job, my job and the job of 160 patrolmen,
11 sergeants, and 4 lieutenants of whom I'm the boss. My name is Kennelly, Captain Frank
Kennelly."