When two hugging victims - a young man from the housing projects and a fast-rising hedge fund partner - are discovered in the community, Deputy Inspector Regina Haywood fights to ensure both cases receive the same resources to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighbourhood at the edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.