A group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer.

The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.

A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.

Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.