The Shield is based on an experimental faction of the Los Angeles Police Department set up in the imaginary Farmington district ("the Farm") of Los Angeles, using a remodeled church as their police station. It features a gang of detectives known as the Strike Team.A four-man anti-gang faction based on the LAPD's actual Rampart Division Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) division. The series has a strong cast and, as an effect usually portrays some different storylines within each episode. Detective Vic Mackey is the Chief of the Strike Team, which also consists of Mackey's close buddiesRonnie Gardocki, Shane Vendrell and Curtis Lemansky.
The Strike Team uses an assortment of unethical and illegal methods to punish the criminals and sustain peace on the streets while managing a profit through robbery and illegal drug protection strategy. The Strike Team isn't above gang members,setting up drugs upon, and forcing confessions out of, or framing them. Tries to give the gang a fifth member have often led to the doom for the group. As the series moves forward, the Strike Team members fight it hard to cover up their wrong-doings in the scene of building up pressure and inquiry from their superiors. Other important figures at the den include detectivesHolland "Dutch" Wagenbach,Captain David Aceveda, Claudette Wyms, and Steve Billings, and uniformed officers Sgt. Danielle "Danny" Sofer, Tina Hanlon Julien Lowe. The Shield has several subplots, markedlyAceveda's political dreams, and his damages from a sexual assault; Mackey's attempt to put up with an unsuccessful marriage, two autistic kids and his disobedient eldest daughter; Danny is an expecting mother; Vendrell's new, rocky marriage; Lemansky's increasing fear for the protection of the Strike Team; Claudette's fight against illness; and Lowe's inner battle between his homosexuality and belief in the teachings of the Bible. Common themes are the citizens' mistrust of police, the social effect of drugs and gang wars, and the clash between political expediency and ethics.
The most of the conversations among the characters in the series involve one person's using leverage over another, also people on every side mainly looking out for their own problems. Most roles are displayed as having both virtue and vice. For example, Vic's relationship and love for his children is in sharp contrast with his thuggish take on police work, although his crudeness is mostly directed at those who appears to deserve such therapy. For example, in Season 2, the Strike Team gears up to plunder the "Armenian Money Train," a money sweeping strategy of the Armenian Mafia. Another example is Mackey allowing a serial rapist be torn to pieces by a police dog before calling the dog off. The season mainly centers around the after effect of the money train operation and its aftermath on the Strike Team, as the Armenian Mafia and David Aceveda begin to get suspicious of the Strike Team of having executed the operation. With the motive to save the team, Curtis Lemansky burns most of the money, finally leading to a face-to-face which demands the Strike Team to divide up in the final episode.
The Armenian mafia orders Margos Dezerian to finish off the Strike Team; Dezerian leaves behind a track of murders, ending in his prosecution at the hands of Mackey. Claudette has ensured a promotion to head and sustain a supervising work throughout the season, while Aceveda gears up to move on to the city council. Near the climax of this season, a public defender is killed, and the impending investigation leads Wyms and Dutch to unravel that the victim used heavy drugs for the last three years.
​Wymsdigs through further and becomes very unwanted with the D.A. and around the Barn. She reopens (against orders) the defender's lost trials. This ends up in her being not allowed the promotion to Captain of the Farmington District that she had been entitled to.
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