The story takes place in Brooklyn's notorious Brownsville district. Eddie Dugan (Richard Gill Richard Gere) is a veteran policeman who will retire in a week. More than 20 years of career has made him see through the dirty social rules. Instead, he was assigned to supervise a newcomer, and it seemed that every young policeman had a stubborn desire to save the world, which made Eddie tired. Surrey (Ethan Hawk Ethan Hawke) is a New York policeman with an ordinary salary. With several children, he still lives in a narrow ghetto with his wife. He is ridiculed. In order to raise money to buy a house, he starts to come up with the idea of the police seizing the stolen money. While Tan GE (Tang Chander Don Cheadle is acted the role of) is the police sent to the drug trafficking group undercover, after the completion of the last task can get his dream of a clerical job, but the object of this mission is once saved his life of the drug dealer Katz (Wesley Snapps Wesley Snipes), Tan GE caught in a dilemma. Unexpectedly, fate turned this.