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Fort Apache (hostile place)

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He stretched his memory back 25 years to his days as a rookie patrolman in the 41st Precinct, whose station house was known from here to Hollywood as Fort Apache, a solitary outpost in a neighborhood of death and decay and gangs with grandiosely macabre
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The metaphor is used by military and police to refer to a post which is beset or besieged. Recent examples may be found in
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Poague, Leland (1988). ""All I Can See Is the Flags": "Fort Apache" and the Visibility of History".
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The "Fort Apache" precinct house at 1086 Simpson Street in the Bronx
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Mogadishu
Somalia

metaphorically
crime drama
John Ford
Afghanistan
Iraq
NYPD
41st Precinct
Bronx
1981 movie
Fort Apache (1948 John Ford film)
Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981 film)
Cinema Journal
doi
10.2307/1225023
JSTOR
1225023
"Fort Apache, Afghanistan"
"Pulling Out of Fort Apache, the Bronx; New 41st Precinct Station House Leaves Behind Symbol of Community's Past Troubles"
The New York Times
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military
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