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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 questionsContinue reading “Detroit Free Press: Controversial Surveillance Program Coming to Detroit Public Housing”

In the 73rd precinct in Brownsville, reporting a crime goes like this: you step through a brick entryway into a cramped, dimly-lit room and you wait there, staring at a wall. A set of double doors and a window break up the metal barrier, but red-lettered signs remind you that you aren’t allowed to goContinue reading “The Brooklyn Ink: Extreme Makeover: Precinct Edition”

After Fatal Strip Mall Shooting Lack of Dashcams Under Scrutiny in Deptford…

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Chicago Police (CPD) have yet to make any arrests stemming from a mob assault, caught on video, on a 15-year-old male near Lane Tech High School in Roscoe Village during a Memorial Day weekend carnival. A spokesperson for the CPD told Chicago City Wire only that the investigation into the assault was ongoing. The teenager,Continue reading “Chicago City Wire: Still No Arrests in Mob Assault on Teenager Near Lane Tech; Roscoe Village Residents on Wedge”

In Newark, Police Cameras, and the Internet, Watch You…

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What had been one of the hundreds of violent offenses occurring in the city each week — all competing for the attention of an ever-dwindling police force — was now a homicide, tied to a much-scrutinized clearance rate.  As the detectives moved between the inconspicuous cement compound that housed the bar and the Super Clean Coin Laundry across the street, itContinue reading “Detroit Free Press: Does Detroit’s Project Green Light Really Make the City Safer?”

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 iPadsContinue reading “Detroit Free Press: Detroit’s Greektown district unveils surveillance to boost security”