COPS!

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Interesting that three out of your four encounters with cops were positive experiences (I won't count what they did today as a positive or a negative experience, because I don't know if your housemate did something serious that easily justifies busting in in the middle of the night), yet you are not particularly fond of them merely because of their media image!

This was my first thought as well. xD Not sure about the media image thing but yeah, weird that you wouldn't be fond of them when they've been pretty great to you. Did you call the cop's number, Ash?

Those are my direct interactions, I have witnessed indirect not so nice. And frankly being forced to take a ride was not a positive experience. I dont like being told what to do first of all, second of all because there was no reason to take me into custody that police officer had no right in making me accept a ride by threatening to give me a ticket for disturbing the peace. (I was walking alone, home, not bothering anyone after the bar and not even drunk as I did 2 drinks and parted). That event actually really pissed me off. It was just a blatant abuse of power and I dont care if that officer believed he was doing the right thing. I said no, I should not have been forced.

And no its not a media image thing, at least not entirely. Its really an opinion formulated from a variety of different sources and discussions. Some books especially took a role in shaping my world views.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics
http://www.amazon.ca/Rise-Warrior-Co...ation-Americas
for example.