The Press: Happy to Oblige

Cops and newsmen often get along like cops and robbers. But there are times when the police eagerly oblige a journalist’s least request. Last week was such a time. With the bitter triumph that only a cop can feel, lawmen in New York and Chicago captured two of the three men suspected of having killed two New York detectives during a stickup at a Brooklyn store. And when news photographers asked for pictures of the cop killers, police in both cities were only too happy to assist, even though it took some doing (see cut).

As if anxious to avoid such a fate, the third suspect meekly surrendered—to New York Daily News Photographer Gary Kagan (who knew the suspect’s family).

Kagan shot a regular rogues’ gallery of portraits before turning the subject over to police.