"law and order" to me means ramping up the brutality of the response to crime, and non-criminal nuisance, largely for its own sake. It's about the imposition of order, and the spectacle of policing, not the actual crime level as reported in any statistics.

The notorious "repetitive beats" section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice_and_Public_Or... is the kind of thing I mean; rave culture involved fairly minor crimes, trespass and noise pollution, but because it annoyed the rural middle class there was huge demand for a clampdown.