The love-hate relationship of cops and their work. Journalist-photographer Arlene Schulman spent nearly two years in New York"s 23rd Precinct, going out on patrol, with one of the three daily shifts of officers, into one of the toughest neighborhoods in the city: East Harlem. Schulman got to know all ranks -- cops riding desks and sector cars, cops on foot patrol, and detectives on special details like homicide and robbery and narcotics. 23rd Precinct is a report, literally from street level, of what she witnessed occurring between police and citizens, and between the cops themselves: what they think, feel, and fear. It is a candid, raw portrait of what the job takes and what it gives back. Often told in the words of the officers themselves, it is a revelatory look at the men and women policing and experiencing an inner city precinct.