Isn't it interesting?

I was watching the Green Hornet yesterday, and as I watched a scene where they're in a high speed chase by the police, and their shooting at the police and ruining their cars and the police cars are flipping over and/or blowing up, and I thought to myself: why is the police the "bad guy" in this scene? It's just interesting that we have such polarized views of the police on screen & in life. I was thinking about this, and I decided that in general, police are the good guys on TV (ex: Castle, the Mentalist, NCIS, Blue Bloods), but more likely to be the "bad guys" (in the sense that they're chasing the main character(s) of the movie, who are the ones the viewers root for) in movies. Although it might be more even in movies. I don't know. I haven't thought about it *that* much. In life it's kind of the same. People feel differently about the police when they're speeding on the freeway, watching for a black & white car than when there's a robbery or something. Interesting, isn't it?

Random, totally off topic note: On the back page of Consumer Reports, they have pictures of products with typos or other incorrect or incomplete aspects. Here's one from this month's issue: