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▲* The old [[The Nineties|90's]] ''[[Action Man]]'' cartoon was rife with examples at the more positive end of the scale.
* ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' sits in the middle, leaning towards the positive side. While the police are portrayed as ineffectual and bureaucratic, {{spoiler|they do end up coming for the criminals in the [[Ancient Conspiracy]] at the end}} and Angel is portrayed less as a contrast to a world of bad and corruption and more of a lighthearted contrast to the ineffectual, [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|politically correct]] [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|bureaucracy]] of the other bobbies.
* Similarily, the [[Dark Knight Trilogy]] looks to be sitting in the middle. Corruption is present in the police force, but idealists like Gordon earn promotions and praise, {{spoiler|even the cop that sells out Rachel Dawes gets mention of being pressured for her mother's hospital bills}} and the police are more portrayed as misguided with occasional elements of corruption within their midst.
* ''[[The Shield]]'', of course, as aforementioned, sits at an [[Villain Protagonist|unusual]] negative end of the scale.
* ''[[CSI]]'' tends to sit towards the positive side, as the police themselves are generally background characters, with a mix of [[Book'
* ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]'' had an LA Precinct overcome racism and embrace an alien cop as one of their own, and thus sits largely toward the more positive end of the middle, given that the whole show was [[Anvilicious|an allegory to the struggles of minorities, immigrants, freed slaves and homosexuals]] set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]. However, there were some corrupt cops, other cops who were racist jerks, and the Captain of the Precinct was a bureaucratic prick given to alternating fits of condescending and sucking up to his two more noble Buddy Cop subordinates.
* ''[[Batman]]'' has been [http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/tdomf/45644/Batman_Alignment.jpg all over the map].
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