History Series / StreetJustice

[[caption-width-right:212:Adam and Grady. One's a straight-laced cop, the other's a street-smart martial artist. they fight crime.]]

[[caption-width-right:212:Adam and Grady. One's a straight-laced cop, the other's a street-smart martial artist. TheyFightCrime.]]

In an effort to give Grady a sense of discipline and help him get back on his feet, Adam puts the younger man to work at a bar he co-owns with Malloy (Charlene Fernetz), the daughter of Adam's deceased police partner. Yet despite their clashing views on the law, Adam and Grady [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] together, with Grady's street-savvy working in places where Adam's badge can't successfully go. They're later joined in their efforts by Miguel Mendez (Creator/MarcusChong), a former gang leader who initially appears as an adversary, but who eventually starts to turn his life around due to Adam's influence.

* BuddyCopShow: A variation, in that while Adam is a (mostly) straight-laced detective-sergeant, Grady isn't a cop at all, but a streetwise martial arts expert with disdain for the rules and red tape that come with police procedure. Nonetheless, TheyFightCrime.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Grady employs quite a lot of spinning jump-kicks in his fighting style. The opening credits even shows a brief clip of a fight scene from the pilot two-parter where he performs a double spinning jump-kick.

* LastNameBasis / OnlyOneName: Pretty much everyone--Adam, Grady, recurring characters, guest characters--has this dynamic with Malloy, since she never goes by a first name. According to her, this was because her parents could never agree on a name for her during ''her first 12 years'', so she just stuck with using her surname. This goes UpToEleven when one episode reveals that not even her entry on the DMV's local online registry has a first name for her.

* AdultFear: Several examples across different episodes. "Kid Stuff" showcases a mother's worry that her son, who she gave up for adoption, is being abused by his foster parents; "A Sense of Duty" has a criminal who's actively out to kill a child simply because the child witnessed him commit a shooting; and at least three episodes deal with women who have to put up with stalkers, both [[StalkerWithACrush with]] and [[StalkerWithoutACrush without crushes]].

* BadassMustache: During Season 2, Adam sports Carl Weathers' familiar mustache.

''Street Justice'' was a crime drama TV series created by Creator/StephenJCannell and starring Carl Weathers (of ''Film/{{Rocky}}'' and ''Film/{{Predator}}'' fame) and Bryan Genesse, which ran for two seasons from 1991 to 1993.

In an effort to give Grady a sense of discipline and help him get back on his feet, Adam puts the younger man to work at a bar he co-owns with Malloy (Charlene Fernetz), the daughter of Adam's deceased police partner. Yet despite their clashing views on the law, Adam and Grady [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] together, with Grady's street-savvy working in places where Adam's badge can't successfully go. They're later joined in their efforts by Miguel Mendez (Marcus Chong), a former gang leader who initially appears as an adversary, but who eventually starts to turn his life around due to Adam's influence.

* YouHave48Hours: Adam sometimes gets this as the response to his requesting more time to finish the case of the week his way before Lt. Pine has to let official police procedure go forward. There's also a variation of this in "Black or Blue," when Adam asks a black ex-gang-banger for two days to solve the episode's case before the guy and his friends go to war against some racist white guys who got Willis jailed for a shooting he didn't commit.

* TheVietnamWar: Adam and Grady's mutual back-story takes place during this period. Grady was 8 years old and was there with his parents, who were missionaries from Canada and who got killed during a Viet Cong raid on the village where they were staying; Adam was a Marine assigned to the US Special Forces. The two met in the jungle shortly after Grady escaped the village raid; by Grady's recollection, Adam had gotten shot in the leg, while he himself was "shot to hell."
** In addition to this, Adam's friend Willis, himself a Vietnam War veteran, runs a support group for fellow vets to talk about the traumas they experienced while there and what they've been doing with their lives since that time. In "The Group," one ex-soldier reveals that when he came back from the war, he didn't even make it off the plane before he got spat on by an anti-war protester.

* DiplomaticImpunity: One VillainOfTheWeek is a foreign diplomat who has been holding a woman from his native country as a slave in his employ, and he and his agents make full use of the immunity to prosecution their positions grant them. When Grady hypothetically asks ADA Specter what to do if diplomats commit crimes such as murder, she admits that even in such cases, their immunity means they could just get away with it scot-free.

** "The Long Road Home" focuses mainly on Lt. Charlie Pine, examining the lengths he'll go to in order to solve a case, and the effects said lengths are having on his personal health, personal relationships and professionalism.

* AllAbusersAreMale: The husband of Malloy's friend Lisa in "Self Defense" is a particularly manipulative example. Then there's the father in "Kid Stuff" who, as his adopted son's teacher points out, has a mannerism that frightens the kids in the class, coupled with the fact that the adopted son in question has had bruises corresponding to physical abuse, and also the fact that the dad pushes both his son and the other kids hard when coaching them in basketball and isn't accepting of anything less than perfection. [[spoiler:The latter case is revealed to be a subversion, as while the dad's initially suspected of abusing the boy, he's in fact innocent--it's ''his wife'' who's hurting the kid]].