A new class of LAPD recruits are about to start their training on the streets of Los Angeles. But time is no friend to these particular new centurions. The Los Angeles ‘hoods are burning with rage, a training ground no longer – the streets are a killing ground. Serge Duran, Gus Plebesly, and Roy Fehler are classmates at the police academy and take to the streets after graduation. But will being police officers be as they thought? Follow their lives for five years, starting from their police academy days and into the Watts riots of 1965. Duran struggles with his Mexican heritage. Plebesly deals with being a coward. And Fehler’s somewhat of a blusterer – until something changes his point of view. The author is a former police officer.