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Law & Order season 22

22nd season of Law & Order

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ113070641 ↗
Source-derived summary

The twenty-second season of Law & Order, an American police procedural and legal drama, premiered on NBC on September 22, 2022 and concluded on May 18, 2023. The season contained 22 episodes. Mehcad Brooks joins the main cast as Detective Jalen Shaw, following cast member Anthony Anderson's exit after season 21.

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The public source identifies “Law & Order season 22” as 22nd season of Law & Order. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Order, season and 22nd.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Order, season and 22nd providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113070641. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Law & Order season 22” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.