Yah, I can see that these cars would be hard to see at night, especially since they have no reflectors, no reflective graphics, no parking or head lights, no emergency equipment at all. In fact, NHTSA has just mandated that NO car can ever be manufactured with anything darker than a medium shade of color just so we can always see them at night.

Do some of you people just sit around making this stuff up?

It had no bearing on safety. The blue cars were the current governor's / LSP admin's choice. When the powers that be changed, the new governor mandated a shift back to white. That is according to some cops who were there at the time.

I have read somewhere that they did not keep this color scheme very long because the cars were hard to see at night. They could have decided they wanted to stick with their tradition also. After all the public is used to seeing LSP drive the white cars with red and blue lettering.

I think the idea was that the dark blue cars were harder to see at night or in poor weather. We await tater's next smarta** comment!

"safety reasons"? That's interesting. I'd love to hear your spin on that. Should we be sending warnings to other police departments with dark blue cars? Do they explode? Melt? Freeze? Where is the danger? What about black cars? Please, tell me more...

It was ababdoned for safety reasons.

It's too bad the LSP abandoned this marking scheme. It looked much classier than the current red lettering on white scheme.

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