I live in an area where policemen are not very popular, and the general aproach would be to despise them. The CSI shows have definitly made me consider being a CSI, partly because it made be realise that CSIs and forensic related officers, are separate from regular patrol officers. I have always been crazy about forensic science, but wanted to be a forensic engineer. But since I started watching CSI, I reconsidered my options, and started thinking about joining the police and being a CSI, although I agree with speed_cochrane, I havbe to be careful not to forget that the show glorifies the job, and that it probably isn't like that at all.