working the case at all, but Van Buren overrules him. However, after a short period of time, Green seems to become more comfortable with Lupo as he does with his other partners. Around mid-season, Green even takes to affectionately dubbing Lupo as "Loops". Near the end of Season 18, Green is involved in a shooting that leads to his being indicted and tried, though all charges are subsequently dropped. Even though Van Buren assures him that he is welcome back on the force, Green, unhappy with having "broken every rule in the book", decides to leave the squad. Lupo is given Green's position of senior partner, and Detective Kevin Bernard (Anthony Anderson) of the Internal Affairs Bureau, who investigated Green, becomes Lupo's new partner. Personality Green represents the L&O franchise's return to the wild, "Dirty Harry" type of character once popularized by Mike Logan (Chris Noth). Among the few personal touches made to the character are his affinity for gambling; he makes trips to Atlantic City often enough that Briscoe teases him about it. Subsequent episodes reveal that Green had stopped gambling but then fell back into it briefly after Briscoe's retirement and death. Green has occasionally mentioned that his family traveled around the world due to his father's work as an oil engineer, and that he had lived in the Middle East at some point, as well as Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire. He has also mentioned that he grew up in a religious family and revealed that his father has Alzheimer's disease. He has at least some family living in New York; in the episode "Deadlock", Van Buren recommends that Green’s family be protected from an escaped convict, and he responds, "Way ahead of you. They're already upstate." Green is often a source of varied information in investigations. He speaks Spanish, some Russian—"Enough to pick up a date",—and a little French, and is up to date on popular culture; he appears to have a strong classical education. He is a vegetarian, for which Briscoe often mocks him. He was a uniformed police officer in 1994. He was working in the Narcotics Department in Midtown Manhattan by 1997. Character highlights Racial issues have been connected to Green's character in some episodes. For example, when Briscoe and Green investigate the shooting of a cop, they trace it to Stevie Thomas, a black boy whose brother Eric's murder was dismissed and effectively