“Law & Order” has been the most successful drama in American television history. Counting its countless spinoffs, about 900 hour-long episodes have aired. L&O’s two-decade old formula has been to take a scandal from the news, add a murder, and then show that the richest, whitest, and most conservative character dunnit.
Vladimir from Russia says it: Sailer tells truths everybody else is too nice to say. Again the disclaimer/answer: the law is colour-blind, neither apartheid nor affirmative-action. (Neither the swastika nor the sickle.) Equal opportunity but of course not equal outcomes. Individual liberty, balancing out the downside of the good and natural ‘trust family’.