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Character
Cragen Trials
Affiliation New York City Police Department
Division Homicide Department
Special Victims Unit (current)
Occupation Commanding Officer SVU
Family Marge Cragen (wife, deceased)
Unnamed son
Unnamed daughter
Unnamed Sister
Unnamed Nephew
Unnamed brother-in-law
Status Alive
Actor Dann Florek
First Appearance Prescription for Death

Captain Donald "Don" Cragen is currently assigned to the New York City Police Department Special Victims Unit. Previously, he was a homicide detective partnered with Max Greevey, and later a homicide captain, where he worked with Greevey, Mike Logan, Phil Cerreta, and Lennie Briscoe before transferring. Cragen has identified himself as a recovering alcoholic. Cragen originally talked about drinking when discussing his time as Max Greevy's partner. This began the constant theme of detectives and addictions.

His wife, Marge, was a flight attendant until she was killed in an airplane accident. She and Donald have one son, who may have been adopted and one daughter.

TriviaEdit

  • It was revealed in the episode Hammered that he is a recovering alcoholic for more twenty years
  • It is odd he is still a Captain after more than 20 years. He should have been promoted to Deputy Inspector. However, in the 2001 SVU episode Paranoia, while discussing NYPD/IAB politics impeding the episode's investigation, he comments to the Chief of Detectives, "12 years as Captain, I can't get promoted" implying that NYPD/IAB politics impeded his own career.
  • His wife Marge had a miscarriage
  • After his partner Max Greevey was killed, the case of Steven Talmadge went cold, but Cragen still visited the family every year. With the help of his detectives, he finally solved the case and found Steven, renamed Tyler Blake, but was sympathetic to the family that had raised him for his whole life and that he wanted to stay with. As a result of his sypathies, Cabot became the family's lawyer for the custody battle. ("Stolen")




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