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Best TV Crime Couples, Ranked: Stabler and Benson, Tony and Ziva, More

Law and Order: SVU’s Stabler and Benson are among one of the greatest TV crime couples in TV history

Unlike many partners on this list, Shawn Spencer ( James Roday Rodriguez) and Juliet O’Hara ( Maggie Lawson) started out as somewhat green in their professions. Ziva David ( Cote de Pablo) was the exact right amount of sass and spice for special agent Anthony “Tony” DiNozzo ( Michael Weatherly). For 12 seasons, viewers tuned into Law & Order: Special Victims Unit partly because of the crime fighting — but mostly because of detectives Elliot Stabler (Meloni) and Olivia Benson (Hargitay).

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