Detective Perez

Detective Perez is the true hero in the 1994 movie Fresh.

He was portrayed by Luis Zantigua.

His main screen time in the movie comes after Chuckie's shooting in which he, along with the villainous Abe Sharpe (who's also a racist, by the way), interrogate Michael about the shooting.

Perez knows what Michael has been doing all his life (selling drugs); he doesn't bust him though because he knows the circumstances which led him to doing it. It's what he does for Fresh that makes him hero. He risks his job to give him permission to work undercover to bring them down, implicitly, by saying, "Here. This is my personal number, and I'm there every night. Come on. Take it."