Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, created by Dick Wolf, has aired on NBC since 1999 as the first spin-off of Law & Order. The detectives of an elite NYPD unit investigate sex-based crimes, working with the Manhattan district attorney's office to prosecute the cases. Christopher Meloni plays Detective Elliot Stabler and Mariska Hargitay plays Detective Olivia Benson, who has stayed with the show the longest. By October 2026 the series had reached 28 seasons.
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In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Mariska HargitayCaptain Olivia Benson
Ice-TSergeant Odafin "Fin" Tutuola
Dann FlorekCaptain Donald Cragen
Richard BelzerJohn Munch
Christopher MeloniDetective Elliot Stabler
Kelli GiddishAmanda Rollins
Peter ScanavinoDominick Carisi, Jr.
BD WongDr. George Huang
