Law and order is steam coming out of the streets and hot dogs. To the chat next to the hot dog stand in Wall Street. I mean, it is a character in the show itself. And that, of course, lends it verusimilitude to use a grad school term. It lends the show credibility when it comes to realism because it's supposed to be seen as like these are things cops are really concerned with.
Five days before the midterm elections, the long-running NBC staple removed all subtlety and character work and explicitly lobbied against bail reform in a ham-fisted, boring slog of an episode. With guest Juwan J. Holmes.