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“I saw that over in Israel when I was there and it’s for the same reason: people were very afraid because of the bombings and things of that nature,” Ramsey said. “They started doing that to show people that they were out there and it seemed to work, so we’ll try to bring that here.”

It worked?! It worked?! Yeah, clearly the flashing lights have cut down on the bombings. Does he really think it’s going to cut down on crime here, or just make people feel better? Frankly, I think it’s going to annoy the crap out of people. (Oh, and can we please get a comment from an Isreali citizen on this? I’d like a balanced retort. Surely jasonmnovak.com is big over there? No? Let’s continue…)

“People should be aware it’s not the same as the emergency lights,” Ramsey said. “If you see all of the lights on top of the officer’s car lit up, then that means pull over to the side because the officer is trying to get through. But just simply having the flashing lights is what we are doing to try to enhance our visibility.”

Enhance your visibility? Which do you think would be more effective: Driving around saying “Hi, here we are, over here! Look at us!” or hiring and training more police officers?

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