A Cop's Tale focuses on New York City's most violent and corrupt years, the 1960s to early 1980s. Jim O'Neil, a former NYPD cop, delivers a rare look at the brand of law enforcement that ended Frank Lucas grip on the Harlem drug trade, his cracking open of the Black Liberation Army case, and his experience as the first copy on the scene at the Dog Day Afternoon bank robbery. A Cop's Tale delivers a rare look into the bare-bones brand of law enforcement that has passed into history.