I have no objection to a little law and order - i just don't think we're there yet to have a completely civil society, and until we do, we need professional order keepers.
It's just the degree to which they are militarized and the degree to which they are controlled by property owners.
If we decide as a society that it is not okay for people to be afraid to walk outside at night anywhere, we prioritize our resources towards the betterment of all.
Conservatives would argue that the costs of such idealism are cost prohibitive, and to some degree they are right. But some of those costs can be removed by better design and more effective systems and practices. Looking at ways of designing better living, rather than giving entirely over to an ideology of either free market or state controlled. A blend of those mechanisms.
Not some complete purchasing parity, but a closer approximation of some equitable distribution of the world's wealth. Should people starve in our times? Do we have some tolerable measure of malaria related deaths? Clitoral mutilation. 50% of whole societies enslaved by laws enacted to enforce power, not liberate.