„[…] a fancifully selective observation of life in New York's streets, police stations, apartments, tenements, playgrounds, docks, bridges and flashy resorts. […] The drama is largely superficial, being no more than a conventional „slice of life“ — a routine and unrevealing episode in the everyday business of the cops. […] There are countless more fascinating facets to this city than the work of cops with crime and countless more striking characters in it than genial detectives and mumbling crooks. However, within that range of interest, Mr. Hellinger has done a vivid job in this, his appropriate valedictory, which comes to you spontaneous and unrehearsed.“ – Rezension in der New York Times vom 5. März 1948, abgerufen am 25. Dezember 2012.
