Project Green Light, a controversial 3-year-old surveillance program that has been touted as a major crime stopper by the Detroit Police Department, will make its entry into the city’s public housing program by year’s end.
The program, which installs cameras at participating locations that feed into the city’s Real Time Crime Center, has raised questions about privacy and lacks a comparative study showing that it actually stops crime.
The Detroit Housing Commission and police are ironing out an agreement that will bring 26 “real time” cameras to Sheridan Place I and II, two high-rise towers on Jefferson Avenue just south of Belle Isle that cater to an “elderly and near-elderly community.”
Eric L. Piza, Ph.D. 