Kitt= bullet proof, Michael not so much.

(i) Michael appears to always try and use the element of surprise, so there are few opportunities for his enemies to get a clear shot at him.

(ii) Something I've wondered about too. In real life there are private organisations and/or individual consultants that work closely with governments to pursue areas of interests that will benefit both. Some examples are the think-tank "Council on Foreign Relations" (CFR) or the aircraft design firm Lockheed Martin. I'm supposing then that the Foundation has a special concern about the issue of crime levels and public policy concerning that, and wants to contribute to improving public safety and aid law enforcement activities using the resources and research capabilities available to it.

So it's name sounds self-contradictory but actually makes sense on a certain level even though normally law enforcement is a government matter exclusively.

(iii) He's not an employee of the police department nor a security firm. He's meant to be kind of a private investigator which probably suits the apparent independence of the Foundation's operations. More specifically, he is meant to be dead as the person known as Michael Long so it wouldn't work so well if he had to return to the police force as it might throw a number of issues.

Why didn't the bad guys just shoot him when he's out of the car?

"Why didn't the bad guys just shoot him when he's out of the car? Dude's gotta go to the bathroom sometime."

You probably mean 'toilet' there.

What do you mean they didn't shoot him? They shot him a LOT.

What do you mean by this whole 'bathroom' business? You ARE aware that K.I.T.T. is a car, right? He can just drive to any opportunity to relief himself. Why choose 'bathroom' instead of 'food' anyway? Why always go straight for the scatology?

I don't really get your point, are you trying to say that bad guys should have waited for him to step out because 'dude's (groan) gotta (another groan) go to the bathroom sometime (this should be 'some time'', and THEN shot him?

As in, 'bad guys' should've stalked him while he's driving impossibly fast car, until he 'has to make a pit-stop' (to use a more fitting terminology, especially since K.I.T.T. once used this term 'literally'), and THEN ambushed and shot him?

How do you think that would have worked? K.I.T.T. has 'surveillance mode' and would've warned Michael of anyone having a gun in the near vicinity. So they couldn't have done it anyway.

K.I.T.T. is 'impossibly fast', so following, tracking or stalking is out of the question.

It's like you haven't even watched the show. The 'bad guys' had PLENTY of opportunities to shoot him, but it wasn't always to their advantage (after all, murder is a very serious thing).

Some 'bad guys' shot him - even in the pilot, he gets shot, but even later, he gets shot in the arm, I think. Bad guys shot AT him many times.

Also, not all 'bad guys' could've known about K.I.T.T. and its invincibility, so you put a lot of faith in the 'bad guys' and their intel and intelligence.

Basically, I am just puzzled, as your question makes no sense.

As far as what FLAG is, it's the same thing MacGyver works for - just some 'mysterious entity that's determined to right some wrongs'.

Do you think a badge and a gun give someone authority over others?