My take is conservatism is about law and order as written
Liberalism is about "just" law and order.
Example: years ago I think there was a Georgia case in which an overbroad statutory rape law led to a 16 year old boy sentenced to ten years prison for having consensual sex with his OLDER 17 year old girlfriend.
It it just for a teenager to get ten years for having sex with his girlfriend (and an older one at that)?
The DA had a decades long we'll respected career as a conservative no bending law and order man. And true to form he refused to budge. He said that was the law. End of story. The boy had to serve his time.
Liberals fought to get him out (governor finally exonerated the kid after four years in prison.
That might make it appear liberals are not for law and order but that simply isn't true