Cage issued the disband order, and Jimmy started the police car, turned it around, ready to leave the intersection and head back to his patrol area. As he was turning around, he noticed someone by the roadside who looked familiar.

A tall middle-aged man, about 6 feet 3 inches tall, roughly 190 centimeters (1 foot = 12 inches, this ratio is quite unfriendly, I will just use centimeters from now on), with a full beard, wearing an army green jacket, jeans, sneakers, and carrying a backpack on his shoulders, walked on the sidewalk, seemingly with a hurt right leg, limping slightly.

Jimmy took a glance, and since the man didn't seem out of the ordinary, he drove on. It was only later that he remembered who the man resembled: Thor from the Marvel movies. In the initial movies, Thor was clean-shaven, but later on, Thor sported a full beard, along with messy long hair and a noticeable belly, a memorable change.

This was another familiar face he had seen before but couldn't recall his name. However, he was sure that the man he just saw couldn't be Thor because, in the movies, Thor had landed on Earth in either New Mexico or Texas — somewhere with a desert-like terrain, which Arkansas didn't have.

The question was whether Thor had ever worked with Bruce Willis. He had no recollection of that. What kind of movie world was this? Perhaps it wasn't just a single movie world but a composite of multiple movies. He just hoped it wasn't the kind with demons and monsters, since he couldn't handle gods and demons.

But, as long as it wasn't Thor, this meant it wasn't Marvel. If it wasn't Marvel, they probably didn't have to worry about Thanos coming to snap his fingers. The situation shouldn't be too serious.

Jimmy stopped pondering the true identity of Thor. He couldn't very well turn the car around and go back to check IDs, could he? Police couldn't just stop people on the street without cause and ask for their ID. If he did that and received a complaint, he'd be in big trouble.

Knowing it was a movie world made things easier. Typical movie worlds usually have main characters and a main storyline. As long as he stayed out of the main storyline, theoretically, he shouldn't be in too much danger. If he did get mixed up in the main plot, he might as well go through it guns blazing. With Golden Finger at his disposal, as long as he didn't take too many risks, he should be alright. His gun skills, enhanced by Golden Finger, were reliable.

When it was time to clock off, Jimmy returned to the station to hand in his patrol gear and drove straight home.

Lately, Jimmy had been pondering how to make some extra money. Although the worlds weren't the same, from what he could see, the technological gap at the consumer level wasn't significant during the same era. The year 2000 appeared much like the year 2000 he knew, without great differences. Creating a small invention, getting a patent, and selling products might not make him rich but should secure his livelihood.

Jimmy considered many directions, mainly things he was more familiar with from his past life. For instance, the lack of civilian surveillance in this world was something he detested during his patrols. With surveillance, more than half of the time spent handling cases could be saved. So often, time was wasted in disputes with suspects and making house calls for inquiries. With surveillance, they could just watch the footage, and even collect videos from multiple households to confirm facts or gather evidence, which was very convenient.

But surveillance required too many components, and it wasn't something he could handle on his own, so he passed on that idea.

The same was true for cell phones. Even though he knew about the future smartphones and their components and functions, related devices weren't available yet. Even assembling them wasn't possible.

As for the firefighting equipment and specialized gear he was most familiar with, that was even less likely. Those items needed professional factories to handle, and a handcraft workshop wouldn't suffice, and he was no genius.

As a police officer, the most accessible, and now his target was the humble but high-demand police light.

By the time he had served, police lights had been entirely replaced with LED strobe lights. Currently, there were two types of police lights in the United States.

One was the old-fashioned halogen light, coupled with a curved reflector with a rotating mount in the middle to create flashes. The police car's roof had a big cylindrical light. It was bulky, had poor heat dissipation, and wasn't very bright. Another kind was a single-barrel light placed in the middle of the car roof, which also used a mechanical rotating mount to generate flashes.

The other type was a pulse xenon lamp, similar to xenon headlamps used in cars, requiring a higher voltage, shorter lifespan, and generating a lot of heat. These lights were bright enough, but their failure rate was much higher than traditional halogen lights.

Jimmy considered leapfrogging directly to LED lights for making the bar-shaped police light. There were no LED police lights in the market currently. LEDs had strong advantages and disadvantages, but they could be designed with microcontrollers for complex operations without the need for mechanical structures, which could also lower the failure rate.

The only issue was that current LEDs weren't bright enough, which could be solved by adding reflectors next to the LED strip to boost brightness. As for heat, adding heat sinks and thermal grease should do the trick.

He had mulled over this idea many times, considering problems from all angles in his mind. Now the only issue was how to get the materials to make a prototype.

There were many types of police lights: roof lights for patrol cars, strobe lights for the dashboard and rearview mirrors, single-barrel suction lights, intersection warning lights, and customizable color lights for special vehicles, like blue lights for ambulances and yellow lights for maintenance vehicles. There were many varieties, and solving one meant being able to expand into many types.

Once he got the patent for this type, he could basically sit back and collect the licensing fees.

Arkansas was a traditional agricultural state, and tech companies weren't plentiful. Jimmy had sought advice from a law firm associated with the police department and then hired a lawyer to set up a tech company for him, named Atlas Technology, atlas tech.

In the United States, police officers can own their businesses, which is different from China, where public servants are prohibited from engaging in business. In the US, being a police officer is a profession, and they're not strictly restricted outside of their jobs. In fact, many police officers have their own businesses, like opening local motels, bars, or supermarkets.

However, there are some industries that police officers can't go into, such as counseling or therapeutic services, which often involve sensitive issues or criminal cases. As police officers are required to deal with these sensitivities in their jobs, it would conflict with their profession.

What Jimmy wanted to do was invent a product. Although police lights were related to his profession, it didn't involve the rules associated with police conduct, so there were no issues.