African American men dance and joke around burning trash cans on the street. Kids play in snow piles on the street. Women fighting violently. A young man punches another man repeatedly. A woman rushes at the camera with an upraised arm. Woman pushes man across the hood of a car. Young man shoots a gun out of the window of a derelict red brick building. Buildings silhouetted at sunset. Police/detectives make arrests as youths speak in voiceover about street life and criminality. Police squat behind a car and take aim with a variety of guns. Person being lifted into ambulance on a stretcher. Young people dance in the streets as ambulance pulls away. New York in silhouette behind the exhausted figure of a young man. Heavily tagged elevated train passes red brick building.