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- <text id=91TT1987>
- <title>
- Sep. 09, 1991: American Notes:Law Enforcement
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 09, 1991 Power Vacuum
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 21
- American Notes
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Cruisin' with The Homeboys
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Santa Barbara police department has an awesome new weapon
- in its arsenal: Blue Persuasion. To encourage contact with the
- community along State Street, the town's main drag, officers now
- cruise in a customized police sedan that sports a hip metallic
- blue paint job, murals, mag wheels and a booming stereo.
- </p>
- <p> "It shows the police have a sense of humor," says Melissa
- Weisenberger, a shop assistant on State Street. Somebody else
- has a sense of humor too. The organizers of a local auto show
- have asked Santa Barbara officers to be the judges of the Car
- Most Likely to Be Pulled Over by the Police contest. Blue
- Persuasion is not in the running.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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