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It\u2019s been a few months since Mehcad Brooks\u2019 departure from Law & Order was announced<\/a>, and last week, fans learned what happened to his character, Det. Jalen Shaw, on the NBC<\/a> police procedural.<\/p>\n Law & Order<\/em> returned for its 25th season on Thursday, during which Shaw\u2019s exit was revealed in a quick conversation that left the door open for Brooks to potentially return to the show.<\/p>\n Read on for more on Brooks\u2019 departure and how it was addressed on the show.<\/p>\n During Thursday\u2019s premiere episode, in a brief conversation with Det. Vincent Riley (Reid Scott), Lt. Jessica Brady (Maura Tierney) said Shaw took a new position at the 88th Precinct of the New York Police Department,<\/p>\n \u201cI just spoke to Shaw. Something opened up over at the 8-8, and he\u2019s going to take it,\u201d she said, as reported by Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n Riley responded, \u201cI knew he wanted to get back to Brooklyn. So good for him,\u201d before adding, \u201cI\u2019m going to miss that guy, though.\u201d<\/p>\n Brooks\u2019 Shaw joined Law & Order<\/em> for Season 22, replacing Anthony Anderson\u2019s Det. Kevin Bernard, following the police procedural\u2019s revival earlier that year.<\/p>\n According to Deadline<\/a> in July, Brooks\u2019 departure from the show was mutual as the actor pursues other opportunities. Brooks appeared on Season 3 of HBO Max\u2019s Sex and the City revival, And Just Like That<\/em>. He\u2019s also set to reprise his role as Jax in Mortal Kombat II,<\/em> which premieres in 2026.<\/p>\n This week, ahead of the premiere, it was announced that David Ajala would be the new detective in light of Brooks\u2019 departure. No other details are known about his character.<\/p>\n The post \u2018Law & Order\u2019: Here\u2019s How Mehcad Brooks\u2019 Jalen Shaw Was Written Out In Season 25 Premiere<\/a> appeared first on Blavity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been a few months since Mehcad Brooks\u2019 departure from Law & Order was announced, and last week, fans learned what happened to his character, Det. Jalen Shaw, on the NBC police procedural. Law & Order returned for its 25th season on Thursday, during which Shaw\u2019s exit was revealed in a quick conversation that left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2065327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[385878,385877,358220,318819,358218,356364,358217,385879,383215],"class_list":["post-2065326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-det","tag-jalen-shaw","tag-jessica-brady","tag-law-order","tag-mehcad-brooks","tag-police-procedural","tag-reid-scott","tag-shaw","tag-vincent-riley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Heres-How-Mehcad-Brooks-Jalen-Shaw-Was-Written-Out-In.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065328,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065326\/revisions\/2065328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lt. Jessica Brady tells Det. Vincent Riley that Shaw took a position at another precinct<\/h2>\n
Brooks\u2019s departure from the series was a mutual decision<\/h2>\n
Who is Mehcad Books\u2019 replacement on \u2018Law & Order\u2019?<\/h2>\n