70 years of the twentieth century.
In the 1970-ies in new York was a very bad reputation, coming and arriving in the city met the brochure reading “Welcome to the city of fear”, as thousands of security forces was fired because of the crisis. More than 1,800 people were killed in new York in 1978, compared with 608 in 2015.
Renowned photographer Alain Le Garsmeur participated in the arrest of drug dealers, after the introduction of the police into their ranks in 1978 and made a series of interesting pictures.
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