Police Misconduct 47 Law & Order episodes
Corrupt, abusive or careless police, and cases where officers become the suspects.
- Season 1 · Episode 6
Everybody's Favorite Bagman
A city councilman’s death looks like a street mugging until the detectives learn he once carried bribes for powerful people.
- Season 1 · Episode 8
Poison Ivy
A police shooting during a drug arrest is ruled self-defense almost immediately, but Greevey doubts the gun found on the dead man was ever his.
- Season 1 · Episode 13
A Death in the Family
When a cop is killed during a rooftop chase, the whole city wants the fleeing suspect, but the evidence points somewhere else.
- Season 1 · Episode 22
The Blue Wall
When evidence is altered in police custody, suspicion falls on the detectives’ own captain.
- Season 3 · Episode 9
Point of View
A woman claims she killed a man in self-defense against rape, but the evidence suggests a contract killing for a mob boss.
- Season 3 · Episode 16
Jurisdiction
A mentally disabled man confesses to stabbing two nurses, and Stone must cross borough lines to prove a Brooklyn detective steered him.
- Season 3 · Episode 21
Manhood
A patrolman dies in a shootout while backup units take their time, and detectives learn his fellow officers knew he was gay.
- Season 4 · Episode 15
Kids
A stray bullet kills a promising 14-year-old student, and the shooter turns out to be the teenage son of a retired detective who is an old friend of Briscoe’s.
- Season 4 · Episode 17
Mayhem
In a single shift, Briscoe and Logan catch several unrelated killings, and the one that looks solved may have the wrong man in custody.
- Season 4 · Episode 21
Doubles
When a world-ranked teenage tennis player is attacked before a tournament, the case moves from an obsessed fan to her rival and finally to the player herself.
- Season 5 · Episode 6
Competence
Lt. Van Buren kills an unarmed, mentally disabled 14-year-old during an attempted ATM robbery, and the question of who had a gun follows the case into court.
- Season 5 · Episode 23
Pride
An openly gay city councilman is shot on a Greenwich Village street, and suspicion falls on his young live-in partner and on a conservative rival.
- Season 6 · Episode 3
Savages
An undercover detective is shot dead, the killer turns out to be a respectable accountant, and the DA’s office must decide whether to seek New York’s newly restored death penalty.
- Season 6 · Episode 19
Slave
A woman is killed in her bed by a stray bullet fired from a nearby rooftop, and the shooter turns out to be a 13-year-old boy working for a crack dealer.
- Season 7 · Episode 5
Corruption
A veteran detective kills a drug dealer during a buy-and-bust, and Curtis’s doubts expose a payoff scheme that ends with Briscoe accused of stealing evidence.
- Season 7 · Episode 16
Turnaround
The murder weapon in the Heidi Ellison case surfaces near a Long Island airport, shifting suspicion to her ex-husband and pulling McCoy and Ross into a hostile California courtroom.
- Season 7 · Episode 20
We Like Mike
A bellhop who helped a young Wall Street worker change a flat tire minutes before the man was shot goes from murder suspect to the prosecution’s only eyewitness.
- Season 8 · Episode 18
Stalker
A nurse tormented by an anonymous e-mail stalker is dismissed as a fake after a fall down her stairs, and when she is murdered, the case divides Briscoe and Curtis on the witness stand.
- Season 8 · Episode 24
Monster
Pressed by Schiff before a primary election, detectives extract a confession from a known pedophile in the rape of a 10-year-old girl, only to find the real attacker works in her building.
- Season 9 · Episode 2
DWB
The dragging death of a Black man is traced to white patrol officers, and McCoy fights both the U.S. Attorney and Schiff to prosecute the officer who bought immunity with his testimony.
- Season 9 · Episode 3
Bait
A suburban teenager’s lies about a shooting hide his work as an unregistered informant, and McCoy goes after the narcotics detective who ignored a warning that his snitch was about to be killed.
- Season 9 · Episode 8
Punk
A corrections officer is executed in a Manhattan playground, and the case leads to a women’s prison, where an inmate Carmichael once sent away says the guard had been raping her.
- Season 9 · Episode 11
Ramparts
Police divers looking for a gun in the Hudson find a 1960s VW bus with a skeleton inside, and the 30-year-old murder of a campus radical turns out to involve an undercover police unit.
- Season 9 · Episode 17
Shield
When a detective is gunned down during a stakeout, suspicion falls on the fellow officer he had been beating, and her trial exposes how the department ignored her complaints.
- Season 10 · Episode 1
Gunshow
A gunman with a converted machine pistol kills 15 people in Central Park, most of them women, and McCoy pursues both the shooter and the company that built the gun.
- Season 10 · Episode 2
Killerz
A seven-year-old boy is killed near a highway construction site, and the case leads to a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old girl, setting McCoy against Dr. Olivet over what to do with the younger child.
- Season 10 · Episode 6
Marathon
A daylight robbery-murder in upper Manhattan turns into a long chase as evidence against the suspect is thrown out piece by piece, and the strain splits Briscoe and Green.
- Season 10 · Episode 17
Black, White and Blue
A prep-school student is killed in Harlem after two patrol officers leave him there to teach him a lesson, and the prosecution of the officers turns into a fight over race, politics and venue.
- Season 10 · Episode 21
Narcosis
A strangled madam is found near the massage parlor she ran with smuggled Chinese women, and the search for her killer moves from crooked vice cops to an online customer’s desperate family.
- Season 11 · Episode 6
Burn Baby Burn
A robbery detective hunting a reluctant witness at the wrong address is killed at a Harlem apartment door, and the former Black Panther charged with shooting him argues he was defending his life.
- Season 11 · Episode 7
Amends
Pushed to raise her squad’s clearance rate, Van Buren has Briscoe and Green reopen the 1981 killing of a 16-year-old girl, and the case leads to an ambassador’s son and a cover-up by Briscoe’s old boss.
- Season 11 · Episode 21
Brother's Keeper
A medical-supply executive is shot at a Manhattan driving range, and the obvious suspect, a veteran Irish mobster, has two FBI agents vouching for his whereabouts.
- Season 12 · Episode 7
Myth of Fingerprints
The death of a drug dealer leads to a man trying to prove his brother’s innocence, and the inquiry exposes a fingerprint examiner whose testimony sent two innocent men to prison in the case that made Van Buren a lieutenant.
- Season 13 · Episode 4
Tragedy on Rye
A struggling actress is found shot in her soundproofed apartment over a deli, and a tourist video of three men hauling away her TV becomes the centerpiece of a capital murder case that Branch insists on pursuing.
- Season 13 · Episode 16
Suicide Box
When an 18-year-old confesses to shooting a police officer outside a diner, his media-savvy lawyer turns the case into an attack on the police who closed his older brother’s killing as a suicide eight years earlier.
- Season 14 · Episode 21
Vendetta
A baseball fan hated for touching a foul ball is killed in a bar fight by a man recently freed after 20 years for a murder he did not commit, and the case leads to the officer who framed him.
- Season 15 · Episode 21
Publish and Perish
An adult-film star turned memoirist is found shot in her Manhattan sublet, and Fontana and Nick Falco, his fill-in partner, follow the case from her enraged editor to a former police commissioner nominated for a top national security post.
- Season 16 · Episode 10
Acid
When an old friend’s daughter, disfigured in a chemical attack, takes her own life, Van Buren drives the hunt for the attacker and then shades her testimony to keep him in jail.
- Season 16 · Episode 12
Family Friend
When the man accused of killing a mob-connected accountant is acquitted, a decorated retired detective shoots him dead, then threatens to unravel dozens of his old cases if McCoy prosecutes him.
- Season 16 · Episode 18
Thinking Makes It So
A bank manager helps rob his own branch while his six-year-old daughter is held hostage, and the rough way Fontana gets her location out of the kidnapper threatens to sink the whole prosecution.
- Season 16 · Episode 22
Invaders
Two home invaders armed with counterfeit DEA badges wipe out the family of the man who made the badges, and the hunt for them costs ADA Alexandra Borgia her life.
- Season 18 · Episode 8
Illegal
A legal immigrant is killed by gunfire as police break up an immigration rally, and McCoy’s pursuit of the auxiliary officer who fired puts his own record on trial.
- Season 18 · Episode 14
Burn Card
Ed Green shoots the suspect in a referee’s murder outside an illegal gambling club, and an Internal Affairs probe exposes his old gambling habit and lands him on trial for murder.
- Season 19 · Episode 5
Knock Off
An upstate man is shot in Chinatown, and the case against the woman who accused him of rape unravels into a sheriff protecting his informant, with the governor’s office shielding a key witness.
- Season 19 · Episode 19
All New
The torture-murders of an FDNY lieutenant and his wife lead to decades-old drug money hidden in their house, and when the hazed rookie under suspicion dies in a warehouse fire, Cutter charges a senior firefighter with his death.
- Season 20 · Episode 2
Just a Girl in the World
The murder of a crime scene investigator seems linked to a livery driver’s attack on a young music writer, until Lupo’s affair with that witness and a faked lab result turn the case around.
- Season 20 · Episode 17
Four Cops Shot
Four police officers are gunned down in a pizzeria, and the shooter’s motive, along with a federal push for the death penalty, puts the dead officers’ own conduct under scrutiny.