Svensken vill ha kameraövervakning – men effekten fortfarande oklar…

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…

New Yorkers Don’t Scare Easily…

For Rochester police, the gunfire detection system known as ShotSpotter has been a valuable tool, alerting them to possible shootings and speeding up the police response time.

But, more than that, the system — which tries to locate gunfire through audio sensors placed in high-crime areas in the city — has also become part of courtroom testimony, with prosecutors using the recordings as evidence to bolster their allegations of where and how many shots were fired in criminal incidents…

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The alert blares from the computer like a ray gun from an old cartoon: WAH-wahwahwahwah. Jonathan, a ShotSpotter analyst, focuses on one of the six monitors in front of him and zooms in on a street-level map of Milwaukee. Next to the map are what look like Christmas trees on their sides–a cluster of green sound waves…