Random All The Detectives From 'Law & Order' (27 items)

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  (#6) Ed Green

  • Law & Order

  Despite his unorthodox methods, Detective Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin, Law & Order) is a valued member of the NYPD. He often butts heads with his superiors, because he believes in bending the law in order to catch a perp.   

  Green is shot in the line of duty, and takes a hiatus from the police force while he recovers in the hospital. A few years after his return, he is involved in a shooting, and indicted before the Grand Jury. Although he is cleared of all charges, he decides to retire from the force because he has now "broken every rule in the book."  
  
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  (#7) Robert Goren

  Detective Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) is probably the most intelligent detective the NYPD has ever seen. He is able to tap into the psyche of even the most complex criminals, and his unusual investigation methods almost always lead him to the right answer. Although his eccentricities sometimes rub his colleagues the wrong way, he always gets the job done.   

  Goren grew up in Brooklyn with a schizophrenic mother and an estranged, homeless older brother. These personal demons occasionally get in the way of investigating - he is suspended when he tries to help save his nephew Donny, and he becomes distraught when his brother, Frank, is murdered. It is later revealed that Goren's biological father is an imprisoned serial killer on death row named Mark Ford Brady. 

  He is ultimately pulled off the Major Case squad after a series of unorthodox investigation tactics cost him his job. In the interrogation room, Goren is most well-known for cocking his head to the side when questioning perps. 
  
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  (#13) Nick Amaro

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  Detective Amarto is a detective torn between two worlds. Like Detective Stabler before him, he's a family man at heart, and has a short fuse that tends to land him in hot water. His wife leaves him and takes their daughter to live with her in California. It is later revealed that Nick Amaro (Danny Pino, Law & Order: SVU) had a son out of wedlock with another woman, although he never knew that his second child existed.   

  Amaro becomes intimate with Detective Rollins after he helps her recover from her gambling addiction. He later takes the sergeant exam, but is told by Lt. Tucker that he will never be promoted to sergeant. He is subsequently shot by a suspect during an investigation, and decides to retire from the force to deal with his injuries. 
  
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  (#8) Mike Logan

  Mike Logan (Chris Noth) is a good detective with a rough past. As a child growing up in a working-class, Irish family, he was physically abused by his Catholic mother, and sexually assaulted by a priest. He now behaves like a misanthropic womanizer to cover up the pain of his abuse.  

  Logan works for Manhattan Homicide for several years, until he is fired for engaging in a physical altercation with a homophobic politician. He is then transferred to the Staten Island Domestic Disputes squad, where he works for several years.  

  After his stint on Staten Island, it is revealed in the made for TV movie Exiled: A Law & Order Movie that he is trying to work his way back onto the Manhattan Homicide unit by solving a murder case. He is instead moved to the Major Case squad on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.  

  Detective Logan works on the MC squad for 25 years, before he develops a sense of injustice and anger against the criminal justice system. The death of his girlfriend, combined with the DA trying to cover up a 16-year-old homicide proves to be too much for him. He retires in order to do something more fulfilling with his life than be a police officer. 
  
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  (#23) Monique Jeffries

  Detective Monique Jeffries (Michelle Hurd) begins her career at SVU by being a street-wise detective; she's tough on crime, and always plays by the book. But when a suspect nearly kills her during a chase, Jeffries begins behaving recklessly. She admits to a staff psychologist to having random, casual sex with a person involved in a prior rape investigation, and is transferred to the VICE unit. 
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  (#15) Joe Fontana

  Joe Fontana (Dennis Farina) hails from the neighborhood of Little Italy in Chicago, and teaches the New York detectives a great deal about life in another city. He transferred to the Manhattan Homicide unit after working Homicide in the Bronx for several years.  

  He is a man of high taste, and is often seen sporting the latest styles and most expensive fashions. He even drives a Mercedes Benz SL500, and often carries upward of $1,000 in cash in his wallet. The other detectives are suspicious of this flashy behavior at first, but they soon come to accept it.   

  Fontana believes in respect above all else, so perps beware: do not call him a "cop" in the interrogation room, or it just might be the last thing you do.  
  

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