Ocean City embraces blue line to honor cops

The side street leading to Ocean City’s Public Safety Building will be getting a splash of color, as the Police Commission has endorsed painting a thin blue line between the double traffic line.

“It shows the community’s support for our Police Department, and sometimes you have to take a stand and show what you believe in,” said Mayor Rick Meehan during Monday’s commission meeting.

The thin blue line movement has taken off in several communities over the course of the past several months. Municipalities such as Ocean City, New Jersey have painted the color down the center of a road to show support for law endorsement in the wake of the shooting of officers in Dallas earlier this year.

Ocean City officials floated the idea of painting Coastal Highway, but that was nixed by the State Highway Administration. Assistant District Engineer Dallas Baker told the department that regulations prohibited painting non-traffic related lines on a state highway.

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