Internal Affairs (film)

Internal Affairs is a 1990 American crime thriller film set in Los Angeles about the police departments Internal Affairs Division.

Patrolmen Dennis Peck and Van Stretch arrest a drug pusher and his girlfriend. The girlfriend resists and Stretch viciously assaults both of them. Outside, patrolman Dorian Fletcher sees a man running towards him he shoots him. Peck discovers that the man had no weapon Dorian is shocked and repentant, but Peck proceeds to take a knife out of his boot, clean off his prints, and places it in the dead mans hand. Dorian tries to stop Peck, who insists that cops watch each others back.Raymond Avila joins the Internal Affairs Division IAD of the Los Angeles Police Department LAPD and is partnered with Amy Wallace. They are initially assigned to investigate Van Stretchs conduct from the drugbust. During a mandatory interrogation, its discovered that Stretch has committed three code 181s for excessive force in less than ten months, has an uncontrollable substance abuse issue, and is a racist. After interviewing his wife Penny, who shows signs of domestic abuse, they start looking closely at his financial holdings, which suggest something suspicious. ........

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