When you're on the roads, almost everywhere you look, people have bumper stickers supporting one cause or another.
We looked into one sticker that's getting more popular, the thin blue line.
Some are hoping it will get them out of a ticket.

Do you know what the blue line means?

One Amherst resident said, "The border of a blue state?"

Lyn Ginzberg said, "Something political?"

Nope.
It's called the "thin blue line" and it's a symbol used by police officers.

Sgt.John Delaney with the Springfield Police Department says, "This thin blue line basically represents the fraternal order of police officers throughout the country, the thin blue line represents the brotherhood of police being connected through the thin blue line."

Many officers display the stickers on their personal cars. But some civilians are catching on. In other places, motorists have put the blue line stickers on their own cars in hopes of getting out of tickets.

The idea started among police officers. They created a website called, thin-blue-line dot com. To buy a sticker, you had to prove you're an officer by providing your name, rank, department and references so they could check your background.

But we bought an identical bumper sticker on cafépress.com, it wasn't very expensive and it came in the mail in just a few days."

We didn't need to provide any information to buy the bumper sticker, just a credit card. We asked around see if people in our area would give it a try.

Jeffrey and Lyn Ginzberg say, "Just because of the basis that your identifying with a police department it seems that that isn't ethical."

Michael Sears is a UMASS Student and says, "If it gets me out of a ticket I would yeah."

Rick Eddleston is a UMASS Student and says, "I could name kids off the top of my head that would do that, it makes sense if it gets you out of paying a couple hundred bucks."

Officially, police say if you're speeding or violating the law in any other way, no bumper sticker can save you.

Delaney says, "If I'm a police officer and I'm watching a red light or if I'm running radar and the car goes by you they are going to get pulled over regardless of what kind of bumper sticker is on there."

Something to think about before spending the money to join the thin blue line, unless you're doing it to show your support, expecting nothing in return.

Delaney says, "I'm suspect to those people that are buying them, maybe they're buying them to get out from under a ticket which isn't going to work but if they're doing it to show their support for police then I'm all for it."