Police Misconduct 67 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Officers accused of brutality, corruption or coercion, and the investigations into their own ranks.
- Season 1 · Episode 4
Hysteria
The murder of a college student dressed for a night out is folded into a string of attacks on prostitutes, until the detectives catch a serial killer who insists she was not his victim.
- Season 2 · Episode 1
Wrong Is Right
A defense-industry analyst is found shot and burned and his missing teenage ward confesses, while a police commission reviews Stabler and Jeffries over their psychological evaluations.
- Season 2 · Episode 14
Paranoia
A police sergeant who trained Benson is raped on a burglary call, then recants as Internal Affairs buries the case, and the squad traces the attack to her own fellow officers.
- Season 2 · Episode 16
Runaway
When a narcotics sergeant takes hostages to find his runaway daughter, the squad hunts for her through New York’s rave scene while Internal Affairs questions every step of the search.
- Season 3 · Episode 2
Wrath
Three murder victims tied to Benson’s old cases are found posed at a research site, and the trail leads to a man she once helped convict before DNA proved him innocent.
- Season 3 · Episode 6
Redemption
A rapist-killer’s signature matches a strangler jailed in the 1980s, and the detective who caught him is sent to help, until it emerges that the old confession was false.
- Season 3 · Episode 14
Counterfeit
A woman found raped and killed with a trunk full of counterfeit drugs is only the first victim of a rapist who uses traffic stops and a police uniform.
- Season 4 · Episode 12
Risk
A baby’s fatal overdose exposes cocaine smuggled in infant-formula cans, and Stabler goes undercover against a decorated detective who protects the ring.
- Season 4 · Episode 13
Rotten
An inmate’s death from a brutal sexual assault leads Benson and Fin back to the precinct where he was booked, and to two officers killing drug dealers.
- Season 5 · Episode 6
Coerced
A homeless man with untreated schizophrenia kidnaps a five-year-old he believes is his own son, and the hunt exposes both Stabler’s methods and a neglectful adult home.
- Season 6 · Episode 5
Outcry
A teenager found bound at a campus construction site says cadets raped her, but her shifting story and a media frenzy hide the man she is really afraid of.
- Season 6 · Episode 21
Blood
A young mother’s assault and her baby’s near death expose a painkiller pipeline running through a frail grandmother’s home.
- Season 7 · Episode 21
Web
A young boy’s abuse leads detectives to his teenage brother’s child pornography website and the paying predators who help him disappear.
- Season 8 · Episode 14
Dependent
A mob lawyer’s wife is murdered at home, the evidence points to their drug-using daughter, and a death during an arrest puts Stabler’s career on the line.
- Season 8 · Episode 19
Florida
Benson risks her career for her fugitive half brother, learns the truth about the man who fathered them both, and uncovers who really framed Simon.
- Season 8 · Episode 22
Screwed
A killer’s murder trial turns into a trial of the squad itself as Fin’s former stepson exposes the detectives’ past lapses.
- Season 9 · Episode 15
Undercover
A teenage girl’s rape points to a guard at the women’s prison where her mother is held, and Benson goes in undercover as an inmate to unmask him.
- Season 9 · Episode 16
Closet
The murder of a gay man exposes his secret marriage to a star quarterback, who is outed, beaten and charged, while a press leak puts Benson under investigation.
- Season 9 · Episode 19
Cold
In the season finale, Lake’s fatal shootout with a fellow officer exposes a decade-old rape and murder by police, and the case costs Novak and Lake dearly.
- Season 10 · Episode 22
Zebras
A paranoid killer walks free after a CSU technician’s paperwork error, and new murders seem to target everyone who crossed him, until SVU learns who is really behind them.
- Season 11 · Episode 1
Unstable
A volatile detective helps SVU with a rape victim who trusts only him, and the case suggests Stabler sent the wrong man to prison ten years earlier.
- Season 11 · Episode 6
Spooked
A double murder staged to look like a rape draws SVU into a cartel heroin case and then into a spy operation, with an FBI agent Benson trusts working against the squad.
- Season 11 · Episode 9
Perverted
A biker’s mutilation murder is pinned on Benson through her car and her DNA, and the squad races to prove the evidence against her was manufactured.
- Season 12 · Episode 14
Dirty
A Brooklyn narcotics prosecutor’s fatal fall draws Benson into a unit under federal investigation for stolen drug money, where a fellow investigator is first to the scene.
- Season 12 · Episode 23
Delinquent
A teenager caught in a woman’s bed falsely accuses Stabler of molesting him, and the detectives come to suspect he is a serial rapist.
- Season 13 · Episode 14
Home Invasions
The shooting of a gay-rights lawyer and her husband looks like a hate crime until the surviving daughter’s secret reshapes the case, while Rollins’s gambling catches up with her.
- Season 14 · Episode 1
Lost Reputation
Captain Cragen wakes beside a murdered escort and is charged with killing her, while an outside prosecutor and an interim captain order SVU to stay away from the case.
- Season 14 · Episode 2
Above Suspicion
After an undercover officer is shot by a fellow cop, SVU unravels the plot behind it and finds who in the DA’s office has been protecting a powerful madam.
- Season 14 · Episode 15
Deadly Ambition
Rollins kills her pregnant sister’s abusive ex to stop an attack, then finds herself charged with murder as the sister’s motives come into question.
- Season 14 · Episode 17
Undercover Blue
When a woman says Brian Cassidy raped her years ago while he was undercover, his defense drags Amaro’s own undercover past into court.
- Season 15 · Episode 4
Internal Affairs
IAB enlists SVU and an undercover Cassidy to expose two patrol officers suspected of raping drunk women and burying the complaints.
- Season 15 · Episode 10
Psycho/Therapist
Benson must testify against William Lewis, who acts as his own lawyer and turns her account of her abduction, and her beating of him, against her.
- Season 15 · Episode 11
Amaro's One-Eighty
Amaro shoots an unarmed teenager while backing up a wounded officer, and the case becomes a political test for the new mayor and IAB.
- Season 15 · Episode 17
Gambler's Fallacy
Caught gambling in an illegal club, Rollins is pressured into favors for its managers, and one of them helps clear the way for a diplomat’s wife’s rape.
- Season 15 · Episode 20
Beast's Obsession
Serial rapist William Lewis escapes from custody, kidnaps a 12-year-old girl and holds her life over Benson until she admits she lied about beating him.
- Season 15 · Episode 21
Post-Mortem Blues
After William Lewis dies during a game of Russian roulette, Benson faces IAB and a Brooklyn grand jury that doubt her account that he shot himself.
- Season 15 · Episode 24
Spring Awakening
As Amaro faces charges for beating an acquitted suspect, a sting on a robbery-rape ring leads Benson to the mother of the abandoned baby she rescued.
- Season 16 · Episode 10
Forgiving Rollins
A visiting Atlanta detective says her deputy chief raped her during a New York conference, and the case forces Rollins to reveal what he did to her.
- Season 16 · Episode 12
Padre Sandunguero
When Amaro’s estranged father is accused of fracturing his young fiancée’s skull the night before their wedding, Nick becomes the key witness to what she first said.
- Season 16 · Episode 21
Perverted Justice
When a recovering addict recants the testimony that convicted her father of raping her, SVU and Bayard Ellis dig into how the original detective handled the case.
- Season 17 · Episode 5
Community Policing
Hunting a pattern rapist, three detectives shoot and kill an unarmed young man, and Barba asks a grand jury to indict them while Benson defends the officers.
- Season 17 · Episode 9
Depravity Standard
When Lewis Hodda recants his confession, Barba tries him for a 1999 child murder and Benson’s interrogation tactics go on trial with him.
- Season 17 · Episode 17
Manhattan Transfer
A raid on a party where underage girls are trafficked to powerful men leads SVU to two Vice detectives, a nun who infiltrated the ring and a Catholic school tied to Tucker’s family.
- Season 17 · Episode 18
Unholiest Alliance
With Benson removed from SVU and Tucker accused of running a trafficking ring, the squad pursues the clergy behind it after the nun who exposed the ring is murdered.
- Season 18 · Episode 2
Making a Rapist
A man freed after 16 years by a retested rape kit becomes the prime suspect when the daughter of the woman who misidentified him is raped and killed.
- Season 18 · Episode 7
Next Chapter
A woman raped in her apartment blames the man who once stalked her, but the evidence against him was planted by the retired sergeant who rescued her years before.
- Season 19 · Episode 14
Chasing Demons
After his courtroom outburst frees an accused child molester, Cassidy is suspected of killing him, and Benson risks her career to clear him.
- Season 20 · Episode 15
Brothel
The death of a sex worker who fled a pop-up brothel leads Fin and a Vice sergeant from his past to corrupt cops and a judge who supplied the women.
- Season 21 · Episode 11
She Paints for Vengeance
A stripper whose rape report was thrown away paints a billboard to force SVU’s attention, and Carisi faces a ruthless former judge in his first trial.
- Season 21 · Episode 12
The Longest Night of Rain
When a former officer kills herself after accusing her old Vice captain of rape, SVU finds that Ed Tucker’s IAB inquiry let the case drop years earlier.
- Season 22 · Episode 1
Guardians and Gladiators
After a white woman’s false 911 call gets a Black man arrested at the scene of a rape in Central Park, the squad faces a lawsuit, an IAB inquiry and a distrustful grand jury.
- Season 22 · Episode 7
Hunt, Trap, Rape & Release
A serial rapist case that crosses from the Bronx into Manhattan forces SVU to work with Bronx SVU’s new commander, Carolyn Barek, and her veteran sergeant.
- Season 22 · Episode 9
Return of the Prodigal Son
A car bomb nearly kills Kathy Stabler, bringing Elliot Stabler back to New York and into an uneasy reunion with Benson as SVU hunts the bomber.
- Season 22 · Episode 11
Our Words Will Not Be Heard
A white supremacist crew kidnaps the sister of an activist for missing Black women and auctions her fate online, while Benson weighs how to push the NYPD toward reform.
- Season 22 · Episode 16
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
A single mother in a luxury building’s subsidized apartment is pressured into sex with powerful men, and the trail leads to a celebrated housing advocate.
- Season 23 · Episode 4
One More Tale of Two Victims
A man posing as a repairman rapes single mothers in front of their young children, and the brass decide which victim’s case gets prosecuted.
- Season 23 · Episode 9
People vs. Richard Wheatley
Carisi prosecutes crime boss Richard Wheatley for the car bombing that killed Kathy Stabler, while Barba defends him and puts Stabler and Benson under scrutiny.
- Season 23 · Episode 17
Once Upon a Time in El Barrio
When three girls from Velasco’s old parish in Juárez disappear in New York, SVU tracks a trafficking ring protected by a police captain.
- Season 23 · Episode 19
Tangled Strands of Justice
A girl’s remains surface in Central Park 20 years after the search for her was abandoned on 9/11, as a rape victim is arrested through her own rape-kit DNA.
- Season 24 · Episode 2
The One You Feed
After a Bronx gang attacks a tourist family on the subway, Benson works the case with a Gang Unit captain who cares more about taking down the gang’s leader.
- Season 24 · Episode 8
A Better Person
A detective’s child is murdered, and the case turns on what her father did to the crime scene to hide that she was living as a woman.
- Season 24 · Episode 9
And a Trauma in a Pear Tree
Benson’s Christmas trip to introduce Noah to his half-brother turns into an off-duty hunt for the men filming guests at her motel, as Rollins prepares to leave SVU.
- Season 25 · Episode 4
Duty to Report
When Chief McGrath’s 15-year-old daughter says she was assaulted at a party she threw, Benson takes the case and must report McGrath’s threat against a suspect.
- Season 25 · Episode 9
Children of Wolves
Four young men attack two teenage girls in a Manhattan park and take one of them, while Benson faces her son’s questions about his own violent beginnings.
- Season 26 · Episode 19
Play with Fire Part 2
In the second half of a crossover with Law & Order, Benson comes to suspect that the decorated lieutenant who supervised a murdered undercover officer raped and killed her and two women from the shelter where she worked.
- Season 27 · Episode 10
Fidelis ad mortem
A thrift-store cassette leads SVU to a 1999 rape and murder, and to the detectives who were secretly recording the victim.
- Season 27 · Episode 21
Monster
A suppressed search frees a man caught with a kidnapped boy in his trunk, and SVU must rebuild the case before he takes another child.