Mayor Richard Daley once said it best in his famous mis-spoken lines:
The police are not here to create order, they are here to protect disorder.

Our society has extensive controls over the actions of individuals to create a well-ordered society. Social control is rather subtle, consisting of beliefs and fears of the individual. We also have the police and laws to solitify the effect of order, but they only step in when social control breaksdown. Let's examine the parts of social control briefly as defined in Understanding Behavior.

Experience

Experience can only define the individual in a context that it can understand. R.D. Laing was famous for his studies of schizophrenia and other mental illness and how it can result from cultural confusion. When social control breaks down it's often the result of actions based on an irrelevant experience. The best way to ensure successful social control is to educate individuals on the policies of a society and why they make sense. If people believe in the social control then they are likely to follow it.

Environment - Physical

Social control is always based on the environment, and most environments allow for violations of the norms. We can put many police in concerts to guard against people rushing the stage, but they can only arrest a person after order has broken down. There is no such thing as a truly secure environment, as all physical controls are ultimately based on one or another individual's own social control. If one or many links fail, then order may break down.

Environment - Social

All societies have to permit a fairly wide range of human actions, including many that are against the norms or even formally codified laws of a society. We can't do much to prevent one person from killing another, except punish them after the action is complete. Security might be able to limit damage, but ultimately they can not create or control the individual.

Autonomy

Every individual is autonomous. Everybody has their own experiences and based on them makes their own choices. Social control happens inside the individual, and the external controls that consist of security usually fail as they can only punish or limit the damage of a certain individual.

Conclusions

We need to learn the importance of creating positive experience through citizenship and community building. Having a healthy environment is everything, and punishment does not make us any safer or a better society. Instead, punishment wastes enormous resources that would much better be spent on treatment for an ill society that leads to a break down of social control and subisquently order.