Hate Crimes 17 Law & Order episodes
Attacks driven by race, religion, sexual orientation or ethnicity, and how prosecutors handle the motive.
- Season 2 · Episode 19
The Fertile Fields
A diamond dealer’s burned body is found in an Upper West Side alley after witnesses see a group of Black teenagers running from the area.
- Season 3 · Episode 2
Conspiracy
A Black nationalist leader is gunned down after a Harlem rally, and the only suspect is a white man whose ex-wife was having an affair with the victim.
- Season 4 · Episode 4
Profile
A gunman with a sawed-off shotgun kills dark-skinned residents of the Upper West Side, and the white supremacist charged with the murders hires a prominent Black defense lawyer.
- Season 4 · Episode 19
Sanctuary
After a Jewish driver avoids charges for killing a Black boy in Harlem, a riot leaves an innocent man dead, and his young killer takes refuge in a church.
- Season 6 · Episode 9
Blood Libel
An art teacher at an elite public high school is strangled in her classroom after uncovering a teacher who sells grades, and an anti-Semitic message hidden in the yearbook points to a former class president.
- Season 6 · Episode 13
Charm City
A chemical bomb on a downtown subway train kills 20 Black passengers, bringing Baltimore homicide detectives to New York and sending McCoy to try the case before a Westchester jury.
- Season 8 · Episode 7
Blood
A drug executive’s young wife falls from their balcony weeks after giving up a baby who turns out to be part Black, exposing her husband’s lifelong secret and his ex-wife’s fears.
- Season 9 · Episode 10
Hate
A 16-year-old girl is beaten to death by the neo-Nazi friends she wanted to impress, and McCoy charges the white supremacist whose speeches inspired them with murder.
- Season 11 · Episode 13
Phobia
A gay man is beaten to death and his partner’s adopted son is taken, and the case turns on whether the boy’s birth father killed for custody or out of hatred.
- Season 12 · Episode 10
Prejudice
A Black magazine executive is shot after an argument over a taxi, and his killer’s lawyer argues that extreme racism is a mental illness that excuses murder.
- Season 14 · Episode 18
Evil Breeds
A 78-year-old Holocaust survivor is killed in a push-in attack while helping the government deport a former SS camp guard, and McCoy tries the old man alongside a young neo-Nazi record producer whose prints are on her door.
- Season 15 · Episode 23
In God We Trust
A revolver set off by the heat of an arson fire leads to a racially motivated murder from 1996, and the confessed killer, now a devout Christian, asks the court to dismiss the case in the interest of justice.
- Season 16 · Episode 11
Bible Story
A burglar is beaten to death outside a Lower East Side synagogue while carrying a desecrated family Chumash, and the investigation uncovers a bitter fight between the two cousins who own the building.
- Season 17 · Episode 7
In Vino Veritas
A fading sitcom actor arrested for drunk driving in bloodstained clothes rants against Jews, and the trail leads to a murdered Jewish producer and the actor’s 14-year-old son.
- Season 17 · Episode 13
Talking Points
A sophomore is killed when protesters rush a conservative commentator’s campus lecture, and prosecutors must prove the gunman was really aiming at the speaker.
- Season 19 · Episode 18
Promote This!
Three Long Island high school athletes who record themselves attacking Hispanic men are tied to the beating of a Honduran day laborer and the murder of a laid-off autoworker.
- Season 20 · Episode 16
Innocence
An anti-gay murder conviction is challenged by Cutter’s former law professor, whose clinic’s tactics come under attack before she turns the fight on Cutter’s own law license.