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Dick Wolf has paid tribute to Kevin Arkadie, with whom he co-created landmark cop drama Composed York Undercover.

Arkadie died this week on the age of 68.

Wolf, the particular person within the support of Regulation & Expose and the Chicago and FBI franchises, labored with Arkadie on the screen that ran on Fox for four seasons between 1994 and 1999.

“Kevin brought the suppose of the next generation to cop presentations and turn out to be instrumental in bringing diversity to the forefront of network television. We can all poke away out him,” Wolf acknowledged.

Composed York Undercover turn out to be the first cop drama sequence to characteristic two folks of coloration as leads. Malik Yoba starred as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo played Detective Eddie Torres. The pair had been undercover detectives in Composed York Metropolis’s Fourth Precinct who had been assigned to compare diverse crimes and gang-connected cases.

The sequence, which also starred Patti D’Arbanville-Quinn, Lauren Velez, Jonathan LaPaglia, Marisa Ryan and Josh Hopkins and Tommy Ford, across four seasons, turn out to be produced by In vogue Television and Wolf Films.

Arkadie also labored on sequence including CBS’ Chicago Hope, ABC’s NYPD Blue and FX’s The Defend as well to, extra only within the near previous, BET sequence including Sacrifice and The Quad.

Others who labored with Arkadie also paid their respects.

Marcus Guillory, a producer on sequence including Empire and Regulation & Expose: Organized Crime, labored with Arkadie on Sacrifice. “One amongst the finest to compose it. I had the consideration to compose two seasons of Sacrifice with Kevin. I pushed to web that job because I if truth be told wished to work with him. I left early the first season to work on Dick Wolf’s Regulation & Expose: Organized Crime. He turn out to be my ultimate advocate to work on L&O. Moving. Patient. Style. Kevin will with out a doubt be uncared for. I’m certain he’s already assign-up a writers’ room in heaven.”

CJ Cohen, who turn out to be Arkadie’s assistant on I’ll Flit Away, acknowledged, “So heartbroken. He turn out to be no longer simplest a colossal TV writer and playwright, but an ravishing human being. We saved in contact after the screen, and he continually supported me when I changed into a writer, years later. RIP, dear Kevin. I will continually fancy our friendship.”