By July 1, Kansas City’s police department may already be looked at in different light: steady and blue.

On Tuesday, the city’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety committee voted to approve a resolution for 153 of the city’s 375 marked (as opposed to unmarked) police cruisers to patrol the city with their blue roof lights steadily on.

It’s something police in a number of cities, such as Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Charlotte, North Carolina, already do.

Lace Cline, Kansas City’s director of public safety, told the council committee that steady blue lights not only help to help deter some crimes, but also “projects visibility, legitimacy and police readiness.”

“Not only does it deter crime,” she said, “it also allows residents to flag down an officer that they might not o

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