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      • When the film Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman as a conflicted cop patrolling a neighborhood ravaged by poverty and drugs, came out in 1981, it was a controversial hit. Local community leaders fought with the film's producers and threatened to sue because of the way the film depicted blacks and Puerto Ricans.
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  2. The police of the 41st Precinct, or “Fort Apache” as it was named by the police who worked there, had a long reputation of racist abuse in the South Bronx. In 1978, it was identified by officials in the police department itself as a “problem precinct.”.

  3. When the film Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman as a conflicted cop patrolling a neighborhood ravaged by poverty and drugs, came out in 1981, it was a controversial...

  4. Jun 5, 2014 · By Denis Slattery. PUBLISHED: June 5, 2014 at 8:34 p.m. | UPDATED: January 9, 2019 at 9:28 p.m. It was known as Fort Apache, but a once-beleaguered Bronx precinct house has risen from its fiery...

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    • Why was Fort Apache the Bronx controversial?2
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  5. This is Fort Apache.” Gittens hung up, and a legend was launched. The 41st Precinct, tucked away on a garbage-strewn block in the crumbling South Bronx, had a new identity.

  6. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. It's sort of insidious, the way a formula can take over and smother a good idea for a movie. “Fort Apache, The Bronx” apparently began as such an idea. It's said to be based on the experiences of a couple of real cops in the worst area of New York's Bronx.

  7. Aug 24, 2011 · When the film Fort Apache, The Bronx, starring Paul Newman as a conflicted cop patrolling a neighborhood ravaged by poverty and drugs, came out in 1981, it was a controversial...

  8. Claudia León, Class of 2023, American Studies and Government. In 1980, photographer Joe Conzo Jr. captured this picture of Richie Pérez, Donna Caballero, and an unnamed man leading a press conference that was one of the first demonstrations against the making of the film Fort Apache led by the Committee Against Fort Apache (CAFA), a coalition of politically active community organizations.

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