
Lives hang in the balance as detectives and prosecutors pursue justice in New York City. In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place -- and keep the worst offenders off the streets.

Detectives investigate the strangling of a peace activist who had a very confrontational approach.

A woman witnesses the shooting of a low-level drug dealer, then she is murdered before she can identify the killers.

When a doctor is murdered, the detectives investigate an abortion protester; Van Buren receives more bad news; Connie faces a moral dilemma.

Detectives accuse a professional ballplayer of killing the limousine driver who supplied him with steroids.