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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: In "Truth Embargo", a progressive white woman and her wife refuse to identify a boy who raped her because he's black. The victim eventually relents, but her wife is disappointed with her.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Season 25's "Combat Fatigue" has Fin snarl "asshole" to a HateSink pedophile who's been going out of his way to antagonize the victim and her family - considering the strict censorship laws in the United States, this is a ballsy move for the script writers and shows how repugnant the criminal is.
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* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild
** In one episode, Creator/MartinShort plays the Perp Of The Week, a rapist and murderer obsessed with virgins. [[spoiler:He has a devoted wife and a little boy, but as the episode progresses, it's discovered that the wife actually can't have children because her husband refuses to have sex with her; he's obsessed with virgins and she wasn't one. She assaulted a woman who was near the end of her pregnancy and cut the unborn child from her womb in order to give her husband a son. She goes to prison at the end of the episode, with Stabler informing her, to her complete surprise, that the boy is being returned "to his real father, the grieving husband of the woman you butchered."]]
** Another episode had Creator/SharonLawrence play an Aileen Wuornos-inspired character who was also a loving mother. [[spoiler:Her "son" was actually a little boy she had abducted from a supermarket after strangling his mother and leaving her widower to believe that he was dead, too.]]
** In one episode, Creator/MartinShort plays the Perp Of The Week, a rapist and murderer obsessed with virgins. [[spoiler:He has a devoted wife and a little boy, but as the episode progresses, it's discovered that the wife actually can't have children because her husband refuses to have sex with her; he's obsessed with virgins and she wasn't one. She assaulted a woman who was near the end of her pregnancy and cut the unborn child from her womb in order to give her husband a son. She goes to prison at the end of the episode, with Stabler informing her, to her complete surprise, that the boy is being returned "to his real father, the grieving husband of the woman you butchered."]]
** Another episode had Creator/SharonLawrence play an Aileen Wuornos-inspired character who was also a loving mother. [[spoiler:Her "son" was actually a little boy she had abducted from a supermarket after strangling his mother and leaving her widower to believe that he was dead, too.]]
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--> Victim (having not claimed to have been assaulted up to this point): "How did I get these bruises on my legs?"
--> Benson: "That's where your rapist prised your thighs apart prior to raping you".
--> Benson: "That's where your rapist prised your thighs apart prior to raping you".
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** JustForFun/JohnMunch is occasionally this, when he actually has lines.
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** JustForFun/JohnMunch is occasionally this, when he actually has lines. He tended to be the naysayer of the squad who questioned the others' groupthink and advocated alternative viewpoints but after his departure this role sadly disappeared.
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* IntimidatingRevenueService: a favourite tactic of the SVU is to threaten uncooperative witnesses/businesses with being picked apart various government agencies, complete nonsense in real life but even the bluff seems to work for them.
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** In "Crush", the DA forces detective Benson to arrest a teenage girl on child porn charges (for "sexting" pictures of herself) in an effort to coerce her into testifying against an attacker. When she does so, the DA attempts to drop the charges, but the judge overrules her and sentences the girl to several years in prison. While the end of the episode reveals that the judge was corrupt, this has two problems. First, the arrest was an obvious case of malicious prosecution, which is a felony, and was one of the few cases (it's a notoriously difficult charge to prove in most jurisdictions) in which it would be an open and shut case. Second, even in juvenile court, the judge has no power to do any of that.
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** In "Crush", the DA forces detective Benson to arrest a teenage girl on child porn charges (for "sexting" pictures of herself) in an effort to coerce her into testifying against an attacker. When she does so, the DA attempts to drop the charges, but the judge overrules her and sentences the girl to several years in prison. While the end of the episode reveals that the judge was corrupt, this has two problems. First, the arrest was an obvious case of malicious prosecution, which is a felony, and was one of the few cases (it's a notoriously difficult charge to prove in most jurisdictions) in which it would be an open and shut case.OpenAndShutCase. Second, even in juvenile court, the judge has no power to do any of that.
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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Sometimes the prosecutors take cases over which they shouldn't have jurisdiction.
** In "[[{{Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E5BabyKiller}} Baby Killer]]" Cabot was given a case with a seven-year-old defendant, even though a child that young can't be prosecuted as an adult, and thus could only be prosecuted by Corporations Counsel, not the District Attorney's Office.
** In "The Darkest Journey Home" Carisi prosecutes the case, even though the rape happened in Brooklyn.
** This does occasionally get deconstructed when the main characters work on cases to which they have a [[ItsPersonal personal connection]], which is against policy and therefore should be worked on by other cops. Defense attorneys then use it to accuse the cops of being biased.
** In "[[{{Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS2E5BabyKiller}} Baby Killer]]" Cabot was given a case with a seven-year-old defendant, even though a child that young can't be prosecuted as an adult, and thus could only be prosecuted by Corporations Counsel, not the District Attorney's Office.
** In "The Darkest Journey Home" Carisi prosecutes the case, even though the rape happened in Brooklyn.
** This does occasionally get deconstructed when the main characters work on cases to which they have a [[ItsPersonal personal connection]], which is against policy and therefore should be worked on by other cops. Defense attorneys then use it to accuse the cops of being biased.
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* ManBitesMan: Deliberately provoked in one episode, after the standard legal methods of obtaining the suspect's DNA had failed.
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* ManBitesMan: Deliberately provoked in one episode, after the standard legal methods (and one illegal method) of obtaining the suspect's DNA had failed.
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** The fast food manager in 'Authority' is held for questioning even though he lacks 'Mens Rea' (guilty mind), although his actions were technically illegal he genuinely believed he was acting legally on the behalf of the police, it would be unthinkable that he would ever be charged.
** The case in 'Doubt' still goes to trial, despite the accuser having confessed to falsely accusing an SVU detective of rape and faking a suicide attempt. Most "he said, she said" cases never get near a courtroom, the idea that this would with these circumstances is risible.
** The Manhattan SVU is supposed to have a 90% clear up rate. In real life it is near 2%.
** The case in 'Doubt' still goes to trial, despite the accuser having confessed to falsely accusing an SVU detective of rape and faking a suicide attempt. Most "he said, she said" cases never get near a courtroom, the idea that this would with these circumstances is risible.
** The Manhattan SVU is supposed to have a 90% clear up rate. In real life it is near 2%.
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* HostageSituation: "Escape", "Florida", "Shattered", "Blast", "Father's Shadow", "Learning Curve", "Born Psychopath", "Townhouse Incident", "Heartfelt Passages".
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* HostageSituation: "Escape", "Florida", "Shattered", "Blast", "Father's Shadow", "Learning Curve", "Born Psychopath", "Townhouse Incident", "Heartfelt Passages". An amazing number of hostage takers insist on speaking solely to Olivia Benson rather than the trained negotiator.
