This film shows Pittsburgh police intervening in three domestic situations: (1) A woman wants the police to remove the man she has been living with in common law. They arrange for his arrest on an assault and battery charge; (2) A woman accuses her boyfriend of beating her and the man accuses her of lying. The police remove the man with some difficulty; (3) A boisterous and drunken father is removed from his house to spend the night in jail at the insistence of his wife and older son. Throughout the sequence, the father is cared for by his younger son.
This film is part of the Pittsburgh Police Series. Produced in the late 1960s at a time of heightened civil disorder and racial tension, the seventeen films in the series were intended for educational and institutional use to provoke discussion about policing practices. The films remain a raw and intimate window into community policing.
