NYPD Lieutenant Nick Chen is head of the Asian Gang Unit.

Street-smart white detective Danny Bassett (Alex Rocco) teams with educated black detective Sgt.

Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) is an African-American who grew up in Harlem, New York City. As a kid, he was brutally assaulted by a cop named McKinney.

Bobby "Carlo" Powers and Detective Salvatore "Sal" Procida are having a conversation in a car when Sal unexpectedly shoots Carlo, grabs a bag of money from Carlo's lap, and flees.

The French Connection is a 1971 American action-thriller film directed by William Friedkin.

Beauregard "Bo" Lockley (Michael Moriarty), long-haired and thoughtful, is a new type of undercover detective in the New York Police Department.

During a firefight in Vietnam, U. S. soldiers John Eastland and his best friend, Michael Jefferson, are captured by the Viet Cong.

Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) is New York's most decorated police captain and a Vietnam War veteran assigned to New York City's Chinatown, where he makes it a personal mission to crack down on Chinese organized crime.

Charley Varrick is a crop-duster and former stunt pilot.

Porter, a career thief and former U. S. Marine, lies facedown on the kitchen table of an unlicensed doctor, after having been shot twice and betrayed for $70,000.

Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned, borderline alcoholic LAPD detective working undercover for a unit known as Vice Special, he meets in a parking lot with Korean gangsters who are looking to buy a machine gun from him and who he also believes have kidnapped two Korean schoolgirls.

Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are United States Secret Service agents assigned as counterfeiting investigators in its Los Angeles field office.

Frank (James Caan) is a jewel thief and ex-convict who has a set structure to his life.

Tom Sharky, a narcotics sergeant for the Atlanta Police Department, is working on a transaction with a drug dealer called Highball.

In 1998, NYPD Detective John Shaft II, a relative of legendary private investigator John Shaft I, is called in to investigate the grievous assault of Trey Howard outside of a restaurant.

In January 1971, John Shaft, a private detective, is informed that some gangsters are looking for him.

Mike Brennan, a tough, crude, decorated NYCPD detective lieutenant, has a dark side and a partnership with certain organized crime figures.

The movie opens in 1972 as a group of gunmen wearing Richard Nixon Halloween masks steal evidence from a police evidence storage unit, killing several officers in the process.

Irish-American Terry Noonan returns to Hell's Kitchen in New York City after a long absence, where his unpredictable childhood friend Jackie Flannery is involved in an Irish crime organization run by older brother Frank.

Queens private detective John Shaft is contacted by his old friend Cal Asby, an insurance salesman and mortician, who tells him he's in trouble and asks him to come immediately.