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That's an interesting article but buried near the end it looks like an actual study found that it wasn't all that effective in the end:

> An early study even suggested that altercations between citizens and police had declined because of the new uniform. The study’s findings were eventually challenged...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1559-1816....

> Effects of such an alteration were examined in the laboratory and in the field. No positive effects of the uniform change were found.

That said I'm all for police not looking like an occupying military force armed to the teeth.