Arleen Gonzales

Arleen Gonzales
Name	Arleen Gonzales
Title	Lieutenant
Affiliation	Los Angeles Police Department
Division	Robbery/Homicide
Occupation	Police officer
Family	Christopher Gonzales (son)
Status	Alive
Actor	Wanda De Jesus (pilot) Rachel Ticotin
First Appearance	"Hollywood"
Last Appearance	"Westwood"

Arleen Gonzales is a lieutenant in the Robbery-Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department on Law & Order: LA.

Biography

Arleen Gonzales is the Commanding Officer of the LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division. She is a cool professional who keeps her private life private and has a passionate advocate for her detectives. Her son, Christopher, wants to be a snowboarder. (LA: "Carthay Circle")

In "El Sereno", when a defendant's lawyer uses an edited tape of Gonzales (which portrays her as a racist and a bigot) to accuse the LAPD of racial profiling (because the defendant was the only African-American employee), Gonzales comes out as a lesbian on the stand, stating that before she could understand the prejudices of others, she had to understand her own prejudices.

Arlene also has a law degree. She pulled a few strings to get Ricardo Morales into Homicide as TJ's new partner. (LA: "Silver Lake") She was seen rattled when Rex Winters died in the hospital after getting shot. (LA: "Zuma Canyon")

Trivia

• Gonzales is the third main character in the franchise to have been played by more than one actor. The first is John Munch when his teenage years were depicted in Homicide: Life on the Street. The second is Claire Kincaid who was portrayed by her twin sister Jacqueline Hennessey in the sixth season episode Corpus Delicti and the fourth being Elliot Stabler who was portrayed as a child by James Lynch in the second season of Law & Order: Organized Crime and the fifth being Bobby Reyes who was portrayed by Joshua Garcia in the third season of Law & Order: Organized Crime.

Appearances

• Law & Order: LA (1 season, 21 episodes):
  • Season 1: "Hollywood" • "Echo Park" • "Harbor City" • "Sylmar" • "Pasadena" • "Ballona Creek" • "Playa Vista" • "Zuma Canyon" • "Silver Lake" • "East Pasadena" • "Benedict Canyon" • "Reseda" • "Runyon Canyon" • "Hayden Tract" • "Big Rock Mesa" • "Angel's Knoll" • "Plummer Park" • "Carthay Circle" • "El Sereno" • "Van Nuys" • "Westwood"