Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 

The third "Law and Order" series involves the criminal justice system from the criminal's point of view.

The show follows a crime, usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points. The first half of the show concentrates on the investigation of the crime by the police, the second half follows the prosecution of the crime in court.

The cases of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), an elite group of profilers who analyze the nation's most dangerous serial killers and individual heinous crimes in an effort to anticipate their next moves before they strike again.

The cases of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service's Washington DC Major Case Response Team, led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

A forensic anthropologist and a cocky FBI agent build a team to investigate death causes. And quite often, there isn't more to examine than rotten flesh or mere bones.

An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts work their cases in Las Vegas.

CSI Head Detective Mac Taylor and his team solve crimes in New York City.

Follows District 21 of the Chicago Police Department, which is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops and the Intelligence Unit.

The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she's assigned "cold cases" -- older crimes that have never been solved.

The cases of an FBI unit specializing in missing persons investigations.

The cases of the Miami-Dade, Florida police department's Crime Scene Investigations unit.

The story of firefighters in Chicago, both on a personal and professional level.