In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who havesworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets.Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veterannarcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable,if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie JakeHoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise forHoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as towhether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of SouthCentral Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.

In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who havesworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets.Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veterannarcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable,if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie JakeHoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise forHoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as towhether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of SouthCentral Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.