In this episode, our NYPD regulars are faced with a new threat: vigilantes. A group called the "Joshuas" are out on the street facing down muggers. The Guardian Angels they're not. The Joshuas have no cute and snappy uniforms, no red berets. What they do have on their side is God. They're a multi-denominational group organized by a reverend and a rabbi!
Operating out of an office with crime maps, telephones and "Joshuas" placards everywhere, one wonders if any of these guys have jobs. They get reports constantly during the day and immediately send out a posse to investigate and maybe break some heads.
Lt. Haines visits one day and doesn't like what he sees. He's very much opposed to a group of vigilantes. Public safety is the police's job, he says, not conceding for a minute that maybe they're not doing such a good job. He tells Myron, the lead hothead, that they should stop this madness and join the auxiliary police force -- a lot of people are doing it and "it's legal."
Myron is not swayed at all by Haines' lecture. He goes out to chase a perp with his licensed handgun but it all goes pear-shaped. Turns out he's chasing an innocent man. He fires several shots at him from a rooftop before Haines shows up and persuades him to stop behaving like a lunatic. He gets charged with felony assault.
Like all of the NYPD episodes, this one has the trademark blaring horns, conga drums, weird close-ups and intermittent "thought bubble" voiceovers from the cops.
Operating out of an office with crime maps, telephones and "Joshuas" placards everywhere, one wonders if any of these guys have jobs. They get reports constantly during the day and immediately send out a posse to investigate and maybe break some heads.
Lt. Haines visits one day and doesn't like what he sees. He's very much opposed to a group of vigilantes. Public safety is the police's job, he says, not conceding for a minute that maybe they're not doing such a good job. He tells Myron, the lead hothead, that they should stop this madness and join the auxiliary police force -- a lot of people are doing it and "it's legal."
Myron is not swayed at all by Haines' lecture. He goes out to chase a perp with his licensed handgun but it all goes pear-shaped. Turns out he's chasing an innocent man. He fires several shots at him from a rooftop before Haines shows up and persuades him to stop behaving like a lunatic. He gets charged with felony assault.
Like all of the NYPD episodes, this one has the trademark blaring horns, conga drums, weird close-ups and intermittent "thought bubble" voiceovers from the cops.