The conservative ethos is that there are good people and bad people and that good people deserve protection and bad people deserve what is coming to them. You get shunted into the "good people" or "bad people" as a whole. This permits almost unlimited punishment for somebody once they have been categorized as "bad people." This can happen because they committed a crime, even if that crime is wholly unrelated to the situation at hand. It can even happen because they did something like mouth off to a cop. As long as the state violence is happening to the other tribe, the conservative vision of justice is totally okay.