He does what he does and expects to come out alive. He's no hero. There are no heroes. It's too dark and dirty. There are big boys dressed gangsta, with guns everywhere.
People die in fire fights.
It's like Georgia. The wild West comes East, where the crazy laws of the drug dealer and the vicious action of the cops collide. Using daddy's money and influence, he gets bail, has the girl paid off and escapes to Europe. When he returns two years later, Shaft is waiting. It has a definite signature and a real blackness to it, as if the plot is a sideline to the true drama, which is about corruption, territory, racism, anger, pride and all that stuff howling for retribution in places where white men are despised.