Law and Disorder is a 1974 American comedy-drama film directed by Ivan Passer, starring Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth and Karen Black.

Using Cy's wife Irene as a volunteer from the audience, Richter poses as a rapist and recommends she embrace him rather than resist, because a fear response will only provoke the attacker.

They listen to a call overheard on Cy's police band radio and activate the siren to run a red light, thrilled with their newly found power.

Meanwhile, Cy, Pete and Elliot hear a police call over the radio of an officer in trouble nearby while the car is pelted with bottles thrown from the shadows.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "a gentle, touching, sometimes disruptively funny movie about—among other things — ignorance, prejudice, rape, larceny, the failure of small dreams, about people trying desperately to cope and often coming apart.

"[3] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "That this very ambitious film is marred by an unevenness of tone is far outweighed by Passer's ability to express with compassion and insight the blighted dreams of his beleaguered heroes, played superlatively by Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine.

The would-be funny stuff is executed in a gross, overbearing style which isn't much fun to begin with, and also destroys the sense of pathos that happens to be the film's only involving and authentic quality.