Horrible Hollywood: The series is pointedly hostile toward leftist celebrities, reflecting Dick Wolf's politics.In the episodes after Winters' death but before this episode aired she and Morales seem to share a few unusually long looks (maybe she's actually bi, or they have some secret that would've been revealed next season?). It turned out that she was addressing a roomful of gay police officers (the same look of fear on her victims' face was the same as a lesbian who was beaten in NYC and she felt very ashamed) and didn't want to hurt the cops who hadn't come out of the closet or her young son. Hide Your Lesbians: Technically, since these episodes take place before Winters' death but aired afterwards: The Hispanic Lieutenant gets in trouble after video of her recalling a time when she did racial profiling on a black man appears during the trial of a black man who shot up his all-Hispanic office because he thought they were all racists.Expy: The Lieutenant looks like an American version of the Detective Inspector, right down to the sweaters although the UK chief isn't gay, or at least hasn't been revealed as such. The rapist is already dead, but everyone is even more disgusted with her once they learn this. Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: Averted, see Asshole Victim above.That episode of SVU actually aired right before the Pilot of this show. Prior to that, Olivia Benson came to LA on a case she was working on and worked with Det.Crossover: With Law & Order: Special Victims Unit when Terrence Howard's DA goes to defends his cousin and with Law & Order when Rubirosa moves to LA.Captain Ersatz: The Echo Park Family is a stand-in for the infamous "Manson Family".Call-Back: At the start of "Benedict Canyon", Jaruszalski calls Morales 'counselor', a call back to when he was a DA.Alfred Molina's character was reassigned from DA to Homicide Detective while Ulrich's was killed off in Zuma Canyon. Bus Crash: Skeet Ulrich left mid-season.Broken Aesop: Sylmar Don't cheat or god will kill your kids.The woman herself is actually willing to go back to prison, she just wants to the DA's office to openly state that she was innocent of killing her children. The DA even lampshades how horrible of a case to prosecute it it. The killer spent six years in prison wrongfully convicted for murdering her children, and spent three of those years being raped and tortured by the victim. The murder victim is a recently released mass murderer. Asshole Victim/ Sympathetic Murderer: Exaggerated in "Echo Park".Alliterative Name: Carlton Campbell ( Jesse Luken) in Harbor City.She might be a bit corrupt, or at least a little too eager to get a confession. Action Mom: Teri Polo's character, who quit the force after becoming a mother.It was canceled in May 2011, leaving several episodes from before the retool to be aired Out of Order. However, it suffered low ratings, despite attempts to move it around in the schedule and a mid-season Retool that killed off one character, moved another from the DA's office to the LAPD, and introduced a transplant from the original series. It was intended to replace the original series, which ended its successful 20-season run in 2010. Law & Order: LA (2010-2011), originally titled Law & Order: Los Angeles, is a Law & Order spinoff set in Los Angeles.
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