Purpose
New York City is a very large metropolitan city with a population of over 8,310,000 people with over 18,800,000 people living in the area around it. An extra 500,000 people enter the city during a weekday. Many different police agencies operate in the New York area.
The color of the day system is about officer safety. With so many armed officers in the city, undercover police officers need to have an easy to use system in place to provide for discreet, but easy identification of plainclothes officers by uniformed ones. The system is in place to prevent uniformed officers from interrupting undercover operations.
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