If You Liked NYPD Blue, Watch These Next
Finished NYPD Blue (1993) and want more of the same? These 20 TV shows are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like NYPD Blue, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Law & Order(1990)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso drama
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working…
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2.New York Undercover(1994)
7.3DramaCrimeAlso drama
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.
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3.Power Book II: Ghost(2020)
8.2CrimeDramaAlso drama
Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.
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4.Line of Duty(2012)
8.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso drama
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
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5.The District(2000)
6.9DramaAlso drama
The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department.
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6.City on a Hill(2019)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso drama
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass…
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7.The Wire(2002)
8.6CrimeDramaAlso drama
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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8.Godfather of Harlem(2019)
8.1DramaCrimeAlso drama
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
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9.Law & Order: Organized Crime(2021)
7.9CrimeDramaAlso drama
The detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau work to dismantle New York City's most vicious and violent illegal enterprises.
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10.Shades of Blue(2016)
7.2DramaCrimeAlso drama
Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the FBI and forced to inform on her own "brothers," she'll have to walk the fine…
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11.Seven Seconds(2018)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso drama
Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.
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12.East New York(2022)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso drama
Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighborhood at the edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of…
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13.The Closer(2005)
7.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso drama
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world's best interrogator…
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14.Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector(2020)
7.4CrimeMysteryDramaAlso drama
Former NYPD detective and forensic genius Lincoln Rhyme was at the top of his game until a serious accident at the hands of a notorious serial killer forced him out of the field. When Amelia Sachs, an intuitive young officer who has a gift for profiling, finds herself hot on the killer's trail, Rhyme finds a partner…
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15.Full Circle(2023)
6.4CrimeDramaAlso drama
An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.
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16.Instinct(2018)
6.8CrimeDramaAlso drama
Dr. Dylan Reinhart, a gifted author, university professor and former CIA operative is lured back to his old life by tenacious top NYPD Detective Lizzie Needham. Though Dylan and Lizzie initially clash, when it comes to catching killers, they make an ideal team.
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17.The Shield(2002)
8.2CrimeDramaAction & AdventureAlso drama
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
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18.We Own This City(2022)
7.2CrimeDramaAlso drama
The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.
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19.21 Jump Street(1987)
7.3CrimeMysteryDramaAlso drama
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.
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20.Miami Vice(1984)
7.5CrimeDramaAlso drama
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
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