Charlie is a bum who enters a mission and is reformed by a minister and mission girl. He becomes a policeman. Tough guys have managed to keep cops off Easy Street by beating them up... Charlie's new beat. He meets the gang leader and strikes him on the head with his nightstick with no effect, but the tough guy is outsmarted by Charlie and is hauled off to jail. The tough guy escapes jail though, and comes after the cop that busted him.