Detectives Corso and Ward investigate the murder of a woman who was strangled in her apartment. A peeping Tom who resides in an adjacent building is their prime suspect.
A veteran who likes to draw his weapon on cops has robbed a bank. Instead of fleeing with his loot, he ambushes Corso and another officer, and then decides to attract police to a local bar so that he can kill as many of them as possible.
While Haines argues against the NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) Effect directed at the residents of a halfway house, Corso and Ward work to determine the link between a stolen wallet and some recent neighborhood burglaries.