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Best Crime TV Series of the 2000s

Top 500 most popular Crime series that started in the 2000s

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500 series (top 500 shown)

Boomtown

★ 8.1
2K 24 2002–2003
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Intelligence

★ 8.1
2K 26 2005–2007
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Homicide Hills

★ 8.0
2K 58 2008–2024
Comedy · Crime · Drama

See No Evil: The Moors Murders

★ 7.0
2K 3 2006–2006
Crime · Drama · Thriller

The Paris Murders

★ 7.6
2K 102 2009–2020
Crime · Thriller

Criminal Justice

★ 7.6
2K 10 2008–2009
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Rush

★ 7.5
2K 70 2008–2011
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Murder in Sweden

★ 6.8
2K 51 2008–present
Crime · Drama · Thriller

Blue Murder

★ 7.3
2K 19 2003–2009
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

★ 7.5
2K 26 2009–2009
Action · Animation · Crime

Murder in Suburbia

★ 7.1
2K 12 2004–2005
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Standoff

★ 7.5
2K 18 2006–2007
Crime · Drama · Romance

Place of Execution

★ 7.4
2K 3 2008–2008
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Deadly Women

★ 7.9
2K 191 2008–2021
Crime · Documentary

Raines

★ 7.6
2K 7 2007–2007
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Noir

★ 7.2
2K 26 2001–2002
Action · Animation · Crime

Messiah

★ 7.9
2K 2 2001–2001
Crime · Drama · Mystery

The Job

★ 8.2
2K 19 2001–2002
Comedy · Crime

The Phantom

★ 5.7
2K 2 2009–2009
Action · Adventure · Crime

Paradox

★ 6.9
2K 5 2009–2010
Crime · Drama · Sci-Fi

Black Midnight

★ 7.5
2K 48 2008–2009
Comedy · Crime · Drama

City Homicide

★ 7.6
2K 89 2006–2011
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Unforgiven

★ 7.7
2K 3 2009–2009
Crime · Drama · Thriller

Smith

★ 7.8
2K 7 2006–2007
Crime · Drama · Thriller
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