Series based on experiences of a dedicated New York City police detective. Detective Lieutenant Ray Brenner sets out to crack a numbers racket in a fellow officer's precinct.
Detective Brenner is angered when his son, also a policeman, is injured by a gang of hoodlums.
The observation of a loan shark operation raises the question whether precinct policemen are victims or grafters.
A patrolman who shoots a young thug raises a newspaper furor against "trigger happy cops."
Policeman Ernie Brenner doubts that his dad is the ideal, objective cop he believes in.
When a young woman who has been mugged on a shadowy side street, sees a policeman and cries for help, his retreating footfalls indicate dereliction of duty, The commissioner orders Brenner to get to the bottom of the incident.
The theme of this one is quite good: How can a cop walk a beat in his old neighborhood and still enforce "nuisance" laws? Message is framed in a drama about gambling on pin ball machines and a policeman who is unable to crack down on an old couple he has known all his life.