Carmela Pagan

Officer **Carmela Theresa Antonia Pagan** is the main recurring and then promoted into a regular character of the series featured on the ABC channel, *The Commish*.

She is a uniformed officer of the Eastbridge Police Department, a good friend of Stan Kelly and Ronnie Lopez, as they frequently work together as partners or on tours together, and she wants to be the next Commissioner.

She only appeared for two seasons, and completely written out from the show at the end of season two. Her character was gone without any explanation whatsoever and didn't appear in any major events within the series.

### The Female Cop

Carmela is a tough police officer who is also an incredibly ambitious and driven cop who always strives for perfection in nearly everything she does. She is extremely competitive and stubborn, doing whatever it takes to prove herself to her colleagues and community. She is a part of a minority group in Eastbridge, just like Ronnie. She speaks Spanish fluently and is one of the Latina officers in the Department. She also occasionally doing some undercover works with Stan.

### The Minority Cop

It's not easy being a minority in Eastbridge Police Department as most officers there are predominantly white and Italian American, so she feels people treat her differently based on her ethnicity. She and Ronnie feel the same way whenever some officers talk badly about Latinx people, and usually, she'd pick a fight with them when they insult her. She is also frustrated with many of her colleagues where the majority are men, and they are always underestimating her and some of the female officers in the precinct.

Carmela often fights with officer Mike Rose, who is a supporter of a White Supremacist group, although he denies being a racist, only agrees with some of the points the group makes, like how immigrants are stealing jobs from Americans. She is also disgruntled with officer Ricky Caruso, who can be a bigot towards another minority group such as Asian Americans.

### Partner In Crime

Carmela is also annoyed with Stan, her partner, because he is over chivalrous to women including her, and thinks that women are such delicate creatures so they are helpless. She and Tony Scali then decide to play a prank on him by sending him to the most dangerous biker bar in Eastbridge and telling him a story about how a newbie should approach the biggest biker in the corner of the bar, and punch him to earn a respect.

Carmela pretends to hit a biker, but instead of making Stan believe that women can do anything, he tries to punch the same biker with a disastrous result. A bar fight ensues, everyone gets hurt, and Tony chides Stan for being obtuse.

### The Next Female Commissioner

When she has to ride with the Commissioner himself, Carmela voice her displeasure because she thought that her boss is picking on her because she is a woman. She rants that as a female officer, she needs to prove herself twice as hard even when she'd done a better job than most male officers. She also mentions that she wants to be the next commissioner, but because of her gender, it would be difficult.

During the tour, she sees Tony being very sympathetic to a rape victim and helping her throughout the process even accompany her to the hospital. She realizes that being a cop is not only about arresting criminals and writing reports but also how interact with people and treat them like human beings.

### Relationship

Carmela is introduced as tough, smart, hard to read, and a bit scary. Her appearance is very masculine, especially when she has a very short curly haircut. That doesn't stop men, and sometimes boys, to flirt with her because she is actually very attractive. There is also a possibility that she and Stan are friends with benefits. Although it never revealed in the show whether she and Stan are together, there are some moments where both of them flirts. Occasionally, Carmela kisses Stan without any prompt.

She used to date a Detective from 43rd Precinct in Bronx named Robert Hue; a Vietnamese American cop. She broke up with him because he was a jerk and she called him a pig. According to her, he was rude and they fought all the time, so she terminated the relationship. When she gets shot during a line of duty, Robert visits her and brings her flowers. They don't get back together, but it seems they are fine with each other and she forgives him.

### Trivia

* According to Carmela, whenever she drinks coffee, she will get drowsy. And whenever she drinks milk, she will be awake all night.