I have had COMPLIMENTS for having to much lighting on my bike. I accidentally shined my 16 watt HID light into an officers eyes at a crosswalk once.

I apologized to him, his response was "It's OK, don't worry about it It's safer to have good lights."

After thinking about his response I realized that he has very similar visibility problems when he is standing in the road directing traffic. He may have had problems with not being seem as well. My guess is that any officer who has experience standing in the road directing traffic, would be sympathetic to a cyclists need to be seen.

Wouldn't that be be practically all policemen?