Law Order

longest-running law-enforcement series in American television. The show aired on the  National Broadcasting Company  (NBC) network from 1990 to 2010 and enjoyed strong ratings throughout its run. It won the 1997  Emmy Award  for best drama series. The hour-long  Law & Order  was set in  New York City , where it was also shot, and approached its crime and law-enforcement narratives in a novel way, depicting the case at the centre of each episode from two perspectives, that of the police and that of prosecutors. The first half of each episode typically followed the regular cast of police officers as they investigated a crime, with their efforts resulting in the arrest of a suspect. In the second half of the episode, the plot and perspective shifted to the Manhattan district attorney’s office as the prosecutors prepared their case and went to trial. Most of the show’s cases were inspired by actual crimes or trials “ripped from headlines,” but the events in the show were purely fictional.  Law & Order ’s split structure relied on high-stakes and complex cases that posed  myriad  problems for both the investigators and the prosecutors.