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I mostly like law and order, but:

1) Laws are supposed to be precise. If there was a law against "stirring shit and troublemaking" as the OP suggests, it would be applied mostly against those who are out of favor.

2) Laws presume that the accused person is innocent and give them a say in defense. Good luck with that if you're accused of a code of conduct violation.

Slight quibble. Laws can be broad and imprecise and some might argue, trivial.

e.g.

> To prove a breach of the peace, the most important things to prove are that someone was alarmed, annoyed or disturbed by the incident.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breach_of_the_peace

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These are probably bad laws, but are common enough.

Law and order is not equivalent to government enforced conformity.

I generally find law and order assholes the most disruptive of assholes.

Here we are getting work done and this asshole starts making a federal case out of someone wearing shorts on a Thursday?