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2 unusual facts about Law and Order


Law and Order

"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999-present), the second series in the franchise

Law & Order: UK (2009–present), an adaptation of the original series


Ally Walker

From 2005 to 2010, Walker played many guest roles on TV shows, such as Sleeper Cell, ER, Boston Legal, Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Southland and Law and Order: SVU.

Aya Cash

An alumnus of the San Francisco School of the Arts as well as the University of Minnesota, Cash has appeared on television series such as Brotherhood, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Mercy and Season 2 of HBO's The Newsroom.

David Minet, Jr.

Detective Minet is most widely recognized for his appearances on NBC's Law & Order, Law and Order: SVU and A&E's Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Josh Singer

Josh Singer is a US television writer and producer, whose work includes writing and producing episodes of The West Wing, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Lie to Me, and the FOX science-fiction series Fringe.

Sheriff of Tarbert

The Sheriff of Tarbert was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Tarbert, Argyll and Bute, Scotland and bringing criminals to justice.

Sleep sex

The condition has also been featured in episodes of many other television shows such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit season 9, episode #2 "Avatar", and Desperate Housewives Season seven, episode #2, " You Must Meet My Wife".

Susham Bedi

More recently in the United States she has appeared on such shows as "True Crime: New York City", "Third Watch", and "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit", and in movies such as "The Guru" (2002) and "ABCD" (1999).

Vidocq Society

The Society was chronicled in a 2002 episode of The New Detectives entitled "Collective Justice", and was also a plot point in the finale of the 2007–08 season of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.


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Aces 'N' Eights

With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher (played by Ernest Borgnine) and an accomplished, but retired, gunslinger (played by Casper Van Dien).

Alojzy Feliński

During the Kościuszko Insurrection, Feliński was Tadeusz Kościuszko’s secretary for French correspondence as well as the law and order commissar in Wołyń.

Assam Rifles

During this time, the most notable action occurred in 1917 when columns of the Assam Rifles were despatched to Patna, to restore law and order in the riot-torn city.

Bruce Golding

The Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Jamaica Defence Force mounted a joint operation to enter the community, with the objectives being to arrest Coke, clear the blockades, restore law and order and recover illegal guns believed to be in the community.

California gubernatorial election, 1966

With Richard Nixon working tirelessly behind the scenes and Reagan trumpeting his law and order campaign message, Reagan received almost 2/3 of the primary vote over George Christopher, the moderate Republican former mayor of San Francisco, and went into the general election with a great deal of momentum.

Chiltern Hundreds

As the area was wild and notorious for outlaws, a Steward and Bailiff was appointed directly by the Crown (thus it was a legal office answerable to the reigning monarch) to maintain law and order in the districts.

Dorothy Uhnak

After the Opara trilogy, Ms. Uhnak branched out into longer, more ambitious police novels such as Law and Order, which became a TV-movie starring Darren McGavin, The Investigation, which was adapted into a TV-movie featuring Telly Savalas as Kojak, and Victims, which seemed to fictionalize the Kitty Genovese murder.

Francis Wayland

He was one of the "law and order" leaders during the "Dorr Rebellion" of 1842, and was called "the first citizen of Rhode Island."

Gloria Foster

Her character in both Law and Order episodes was based on the widow of Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz.

Guillemette Andreu

After studying history, Andreu specialized in Egyptology (hieroglyphs, hieratic, Coptic) and produced a thesis on the law and order in Ancient Egypt at Sorbonne in 1978 under the direction of Professor Jean Leclant.

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Neal Baer, executive producer, Law and Order: SVU; former executive producer and writer, ER

Henry Y. Cranston

Cranston was elected as a Law and Order candidate to the Twenty-eighth Congress.

History of Malakand

The Administration has raised a levy force for the control of law and order situation which is the re-incarnation of the Malakand Field Force during the British regime in which Winston Churchill served as a captain.

I. Stanford Jolley

In 1958, Jolley appeared on ABC's Walt Disney Presents in the role of Sheriff Adams in the episode "Law and Order, Incorporated", with Robert Loggia as Elfego Baca.

Independent Police Conduct Authority

In February 2013, IPCA chairman Sir David Carruthers told Parliament's law and order committee that "In line with moves by its English counterpart, the authority is looking at employing investigators who are not former police officers to counter perceptions (that) inquiries are not completely independent".

John Jovino Gun Shop

The shop was seen in the film Serpico, in the thirteenth episode (Season One) of Law and Order (A Death in the Family) and very briefly in Mean Streets as well as The Brave One.

Le Maintien de l’ordre

Le Maintien de l’ordre (Gallimard, 1961), translated as Law and Order, is a novel by French writer Claude Ollier written in classic nouveau roman style.

National Operations Council

The National Operations Council (NOC) or Majlis Gerakan Negara (MAGERAN) was an emergency administrative body which attempted to restore law and order in Malaysia after the May 13 Incident in 1969, when racial rioting broke out in the federal capital of Kuala Lumpur.

Palagummi Sainath

On the condition of law and order maintenance in India,"All the judges of the Supreme Court do not have the power of a single police constable. That constable makes or breaks us. The judges can't re-write the laws and have to listen to learned lawyers of both sides. A constable here simply makes his own laws. He can do almost anything."

Posse comitatus

Posse Comitatus Act, a United States federal law prohibiting members of the military from exercising powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property

Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

In April 1985 the Battalion redeployed to Abercorn Barracks, Ballykinler, Northern Ireland and was heavily committed in domestic duties, maintaining law and order, particularly in the terrorist plagued countryside of South Armagh.

Représentant en mission

The term is most often assigned to deputies designated by the National Convention for maintaining law and order in the départements and armies, as they had powers to oversee conscription into the army, and were used to monitor local military command.

Scarman report

The debate in the House of Parliament to mark the publication of the Scarman report on the 26 November 1981 had as its theme "law and order" and the then leader of the Liberal Party, David Steel, argued that "urgent action" to prevent a drift into lawlessness was necessary.

Srivilliputhur

Law and order in the town is maintained by the Srivilliputhur sub division of the Tamil Nadu Police headed by a Deputy Superintendent.

Stan Jolley

In 1958, Jolley's father appeared on ABC's Walt Disney Presents in the role of Sheriff Adams in the episode "Law and Order, Incorporated", with Robert Loggia as Elfego Baca.

Task Force Phoenix

It was organized by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) in 2003-2004 to train and mentor the newly created Afghan National Army/Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) to establish and maintain law and order throughout Afghanistan using Embedded Training Teams or ETTs.

The Jamaica Regiment

The battalion at Up Park Camp in Kingston has a commitment to assisting the local police in maintaining law and order, while the battalion at Moneague Training Camp in Moneague, St Ann is mainly committed to anti-drug patrols.

Vanessa Place

Place has also worked as an occasional screenwriter, working on television shows such as Law and Order: SVU and Xena: Warrior Princess with producer Liz Friedman.

Volunteer Special Constabulary

The VSC officers are imbued with equal powers of a regular police officer to enforce law and order in Singapore.

Wakō, Saitama

At that time, Kawagoe Castle played an important role in governing the northern part of Musashino Province and maintaining law and order in the area.

Who Controls the Internet?

As law professors at Harvard and Columbia, respectively, Goldsmith and Wu assert the important role of government in maintaining Internet law and order while debunking the claims of techno-utopianism that have been espoused by theorists such as Thomas Friedman.

William Pinchbeck

In 1860, during the Cariboo Gold Rush, Pinchbeck accompanied Gold Commissioner Philip Henry Nind to Williams Lake to create a local government and bring law and order to the area.