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* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: Anybody familiar with the American legal system can tell you that murder and rape cases usually take months, if not years, to get to trial. However, the show is written such that the investigation, arrest, arraignment, trial, and conviction for almost every case all happens within a week or two. This is highly unrealistic, but it is necessary in order to have new stories every week.
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* WalkOfShame: Once, the detectives tried to get information about someone involved in the swinger scene. After raiding a sex club, one detective announced that anyone willing to talk about that person would be taken out the back door; anyone not willing could go out the front where the press had already gathered. (The "dress code" for that club was full-nudity.)
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* SecurityBlindspot: It's revealed that corrections officers at a New York prison have been exploiting holes in the security cameras to force themselves on female inmates, particularly and especially the blind that is the prison chapel, which has no coverage so that prisoners will feel comfortable offering confession.
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** The season that began following the rise of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic saw the pandemic as a recurrent plot point (especially as the pandemic wreaked utter havoc in New York City, where SVU is set). The very first scene of the season sets the scene when Kat and Amanda offer to ride to the hospital with a victim, only for a paramedic to halt them with a "only two people in here. COVID."
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** The season that began following the rise of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic saw the pandemic as a recurrent plot point (especially as the pandemic wreaked utter havoc in New York City, where SVU is set). The very first scene of the season sets the scene gravitas of the emergency when Kat and Amanda offer to ride to the hospital with a victim, only for a paramedic to halt them with a "only two people in here. COVID."
