"Do I not?" he prompts, somewhat curious about this. He tilts his head, amused. "What should a police officer look like, then?"

Lancelot has an idea what the answer might be, but he's interested to hear how Simon words it. It's a product, he thinks, of how news and media depict police. A peculiar sort of thing that makes people forget they are actually people, normal people like them who just happen to have a job enforcing the law.