text:  To me, I also think about what it means having these characters who both are poking fun at individuals who might have power over them, but they also like represent and enforces power. In a way, it kind of allows both the image of the police and the image of the actor to kind of have it both ways. They both, the actor and the institution, get to be authoritative, but they also get to be kind of non-threatening or just kidding.