HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Even before this week’s spike in fatalities , officials were ramping up messaging and methods to make people safer and one idea gaining ground is getting more law enforcement on the street by teaming up state and county law enforcement agencies.

The plan is on top of repeated promises to crack down on bad driving, tougher laws and pleas to show aloha on the roads, but Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi says it doesn’t feel like people’s behavior has gotten any better.

“I drive around, you know, and I look and I see people’s behaviors in cars, and I see people running red lights, and I see sometimes, you know, people speeding in places where they shouldn’t, and you sit there and go, why?” he told Hawaii News Now.

Many accidents involve risky behavior including ja

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