The story begins when two partners who are staking out the docks for smuggler activity end up in a life threatening gun battle. Just when one of them gets the upper hand, the other arrives to shoot everybody (including his partner) and keep all the drugs and cash for himself! Five years later the son of that officer who was betrayed has joined the force and requests the narcotics division in an attempt to find the one responsible for the death of his father. He is paired up with a cop nicknamed P.O. (That stands for Pissed Off – Played by Richard Roundtree.) who’s reluctant, to say the least, to take on a rookie partner. The new guy, Robert, slowly proves himself as the two would-be heroes follow a trail of heroin all the way to the top dog himself, the criminal ex-cop who did Robert’s father in! If Robert and P.O. have anything to say about it, this traitorous villain will pay the highest price possible for the wrongs he has done! At first glance this may seem like just another cash-in and little else. The truth is that Miami Cops is a pretty cool movie with a great car chase, some serious ass kicking (it’s always cool to watch Roundtree bust some heads), and a few surprisingly graphic moments of violence in the final reels! Watch for the chainsaw scene specifically! (Paolo Ricci provides the effects.) Though it can’t be referred to as a classic by any stretch of the imagination (even some of the calmer music is lifted from the Shocking Dark soundtrack), Miami Cops is still a lot of action-packed fun!