Eleven businesses along Monroe Street have joined Project Green Light, a program that sends real-time surveillance footage to the Detroit Police Department. The coordinated move, which was made official Tuesday, makes the Greektown district the city’s first “Green Light Corridor.”
“Police can watch in real time, business owners can watch it on their own iPads or smartphones in real time and we can strategize together,” Mayor Mike Duggan said at a press conference inside the Atheneum Hotel — one of the new partners. He explained that the plan was developed after Greektown merchants came to him and Chief James Craig to problem solve a number of issues they were facing.
“We talked about what if we did something different on Green Light, rather than have it on individual businesses, what if we took the whole Greektown area?” Duggan said, adding that this new model — businesses who join the program together — is the future of the initiative…
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