J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.
Michael Boatman
Lori Petty
Ice Cube
Erich Anderson
Bernie Casey
Richard Anderson
Elliott Gould
Victoria Dillard
Michael Ironside
Natalija Nogulich
Wanda De Jesus
Michael Gregory
Don Harvey
Ernie Lee Banks
M. Emmet Walsh
Thomas Babson
Monty Bane
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Sy Richardson
Linden Chiles
Tommy Redmond Hicks
Joseph Walsh