Terri Stivers is a fictional police detective of the Baltimore Police Department on Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which also acted as the de-facto series finale...

. She was played by actress Toni Lewis

Toni Lewis

Toni Lewis is an actress best known for playing Terri Stivers on Homicide: Life on the Street. The role led to her receiving a nomination for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series...

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Strivers first appeared in Season 5 as a member of the narcotics unit, but she often collaborated with the homicide detectives in an effort to bring down drug kingpin Luther Mahoney. She was involved in the controversy regarding Mahoney's shooting death, which she and fellow detectives Mike Kellerman

Mike Kellerman

Detective Michael Scott Kellerman is a fictional character on the television drama series Homicide: Life on the Street portrayed by Reed Diamond. He is a main character from seasons 4-6, 1995-1998.-Biography:...

 and Meldrick Lewis

Meldrick Lewis

Meldrick Lewis is a fictional character on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street played by Clark Johnson. The character was in the series for its full run and had the very first and last lines of the series...

 saw as an unjustified killing. In Season 6, she served brief stints in the burglary and sex crime units before transferring to homicide. The questionable shooting led to a war between the Mahoney family and the Police Department, resulting in Kellerman's departure from the force. Stivers remained on the force but was less visible following the death of Mahoney's sister and organizational heir, Georgia Rae Mahoney, and Kellerman's departure. She ripped now-PI

Private investigator

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 Kellerman for his actions and the effect they had on the police. She also made it clear she wasn't happy with new Det. Rene Sheppard

Rene Sheppard

Rene Sheppard is a fictional police detective of the Baltimore Police Department on Homicide: Life on the Street, played by Michael Michele. At 29, Sheppard first appeared in Season 7. Rene was Miss Anne Arundel County sometime prior to joining the Baltimore Police Department...

's inability to control the streets, but did form a strong friendship with a more competent female detective, Laura Ballard

Laura Ballard

Laura Ballard is a fictional police detective of the Baltimore Police Department on Homicide: Life on the Street. She was played by Callie Thorne. Ballard was born on November 20, 1968 and first appeared in Season 6 after changing police departments from Seattle...

. She and Det. Lewis shared a mutual understanding of unrequitted feelings for one another, though it never panned out for the two.