The NBC hit show Law and Order SVU has made a change in their work by giving viewers a real insight on today’s society and its behavior.

As the show grows in popularity, more of the episodes have been portrayed by true events and crimes, known as being “ripped from the headlines.”.

For example, the episode “Imprisoned Lives” is about an abandoned boy who ends up leading detectives to the home of a man who has kidnapped two women and has kept them locked up. This episode is based on an incident that occurred in Cleveland, 2013. Ariel Castro kidnapped three women and held them prisoner for over a decade.

Basing more of the shows’s content off of true crimes has changed the show in more of a positive way. By giving viewers an insight into the real world, and how people have been affected.

The director, Dick Wolf has stated during an NBC interview that the episodes have been based off the ”heinous”crimes.

There have been many more episodes that have been based on true crimes, and many more to come.