The author spent many months riding along with the patrolmen and detective of Central Divisions, San Diego, an eye-witness to their encounters and confrontations with drunks, homosexuals, junkies, suicides, teenage gangs, prostitutes, pimps, robbers, murderers and the Ku Klux Klan. His raw and racy documentary dramatically captures the excitement, the tension, the boredom, and frustration, the sheer physical danger that is part of a cop's everyday life.