Police
 
More often than not, the assignments Weegee was asked to cover were the late-night arrests, bookings at police headquarters, fires, auto accidents and rescues in the midtown area. There was always an early-morning market for photographs from these types of events.
 

Harold Horn, Knocked Over Milk Wagon with Stolen Car, June 27, 1941
Charles Sodokoff and Arthur Webber Use Their Top Hats to Hide Their Faces, January 27, 1942

Street Scene in New York: A Wild Kid in a Stolen Car Knocks Over Milk Wagon. Harold Horn, 16, already in trouble with the police, stole a car from a parking lot at 10h Ave. and 26th St. He tried to squeeze the car between a milk wagon and a truck. The wagon was upset, the driver seriously hurt, and the car smashed against a light pole. A detective gets the captured driver into police car and handcuffs him. PM Photo by Weegee In Top Hats - In Trouble, Charles Sodokoff, 28, and Arthur Webber, 32, both Broklynites, use their toppled toppers to hide faces as they take free ride to Felony Court. Boys were tippling at Astor Bar Saturday night when they decided to slide down banisters for fun (???). Cop was called and they assaulted him. Funsters then went from mahogany bar to iron type. New York Daily News Photo

Photographic images ©1994, International Center of Photography, New York, Bequest of Wilma Wilcox.
Text ©1997 International Center of Photography, from Weegee's World by Miles Barth, A Bulfinch Press Book, Little, Brown and Company. All rights reserved.