That promo photo isn’t too bad. At least the women aren’t overly gorgeous or have their boobs hanging out. I am actually looking forward to the premiere of Chicago Fire!
But the commercials I saw showed the two women (both model beautiful) responding to an emergency and getting out of their paramedic vehicle with their long hair down and wearing tight t-shirts with no uniform coats. They may not have been running around in bikinis but that isn’t at all realistic.
CSI: Miami isn’t trying to be realistic. My contribution: Emily Prentiss from Criminal Minds. Reason: pretty sure she could kick my ass.
Definitely agree with Mariska Hargitay - she can look like she *could *be beautiful, but prefers to look tough and pissed off.
I’ll also add in Angie Harmon from *Rizzoli and Isles *- silly show, sure, but she does an excellent job of making her awesomely beautiful face and body look tomboyish and tough, while still being bonerrific at the same time.
Jennifer Esposito on Blue bloods? AJ Cook? Poppy Montgomery? Although I have never had the good fortune to encounter a super model police woman in real life, so I have to doubt their existence.
Came to say this. That was a decent cop show and I’m not a fan of the genre. I think it was already cancelled when I first saw it.
Agree!
Agreed. And not only tv cops are showing cleavage, but all sorts of females who are supposed to be professionals in their fields.
Sticking to the premise of the OP “Thinking only of the remarkably beautiful”, I’d say there are a bunch of names that don’t belong (although I’ll grant that beauty is in the eye of the beholder).
CCH Pounder (Shield) I think is a lock for exclusion.
Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne) and Melissa Leo (Homicide: Life on the Street), IMNSHO, were just plain and average.
Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) may have been something back in the day, but that was back before my day.
Catherine Dent (Shield) and Betty Thomas (Hill Street Blues) are borderline regarding the OPs premise, again IMNSHO.
Wait, we’re explicitly talking about her looks and neglecting to mention that she’s frigging Jayne Mansfield’s daughter? Admirable restraint. 
How about Anna Torv on Fringe? She also does a good American accent.
Liz White (DC Cartwright) from* Life On Mars*
Mina Anwar (Constable Habib) from* Thin Blue Line*
and “Fie!” on anyone who does not consider them fair.
Also I have to disagree with whoever was dissing Robin Tunney, she works for me.
I think Anna Torv has been quite believable as an FBI agent, or whatever she was in the first couple years. I liked the monster-of-the-week Fringe better than when the mythology/arc took over.
Really? Because – although nothing to do with her clothes or general appearance – the way she spoke on Law and Orderwas so extremely obviously not-a-lawyer that in every episode my suspension of disbelief gets punched right in the face. Then poked in the arm with annoying pointy things the rest of the episode.
I mean, all the other ADAs were ridiculously attractive, but I could at least go along with believing they made it through law school.
Are you saying that you’ve never seen any of the shows, and yet feel competent to snark on them?
As an amusing tangent, Alexandra Paul, of Baywatch fame, has a twin sister named Caroline, who was a firefighter in real life.
I like Tunney’s performance in the Mentalist. I can buy her as a cop, especially as she never, ever relies on brawn to take down offenders. That’s what tasers are for, after all. But I go back and forth in my assessment of her hotness. She has great legs, though.
Her co-star Amanda Righetti I do not buy as a cop. No, that’s not quite right. It’s not Righetti’s performance that distresses me; it’s the way the Grace Van Pelt character is written. Too credulous.
I’m going to need you to take that back. Abby Carmichael, in her unrepentant self-righteous bitchery, was by far the most entertaining of the ADAs.
Yeah, but she was know as being the “realistic one” (kindest possible terms) on Baywatch, so that’s really a wash.
I’m not saying it’s unrealistic for an attractive woman to work in the police or fire departments. I’m saying having them responding with long hair and t-shirts is unrealistic.
Here’s a picture of Caroline Paul at work.
I once got pulled over by a tiny female cop to tell me one of my tires looked like it needed more air (her partner looked medium-height and wide, but he didn’t leave the car). She seemed to be on the lower limit for height, which would put her at something like 5’0", but she was one of those wiry brunettes who are a lot stronger than idiots who haven’t looked at their arms think. By the training conditions of the police branch to which she belonged, she had to pass the exact same physical as the guys, included being able to lift more than her own weight.