After Meloni abruptly left the show in 2011 following a contract dispute, Law and Order: SVU continued with Benson as its anchor, and in its 22nd season is now the longest-running live-action primetime series in history. Stabler became, for many, the problematic “zaddy” of past TV, a staple of Netflix binges and unceasing cable marathons. His line-crossing vigilantism has only grown more queasy in the ensuing decade, as more and more evidence of systemic police brutality collects in the public sphere. Nevertheless, Stabler is back on TV, on both the new season of SVU and his own spin-off, Law and Order: Organized Crime, which premiered in a two-hour crossover event last week. (Both series are produced by Dick Wolf, maestro of a whole law enforcement procedural TV universe that includes NBC’s Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD.)