The Police Tapes plot
Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 with police officers patrolling the 44th Precinct in New York's southern Bronx. At that time, the crime rates there were the highest in the entire city. It yielded forty hours of material, which of course had to be drastically shortened. Topics covered include the discovery of a body in the street, the rescue of a mother from her mentally disturbed son, a woman who threatens her neighbors and the arrest of a 70-year-old woman who hit her daughter with an ax on her face. chopped in.