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DPD defends controversial ShotSpotter system after leak reveals Detroit locations

The department says the gunshot sensors don’t target communities of color, but a document shows clusters of them on the east and west sides of the city

By Lee DeVito
Mar 1, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Civil Rights, Crime, Government, ShotSpotter, Project Green Light, Detroit Police Department
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Detroit’s Project Green Light failed to reduce violent crime, DOJ finds

The report contradicts claims by city officials

By Steve Neavling
Feb 9, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Project Green Light, Department of Justice, surveillance, National Institute of Justice
Metro Detroit

Entertainment and incarceration in Greektown, downtown Detroit’s wildest district

By Sean Taormina
Aug 18, 2021

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Detroit, Greektown, police, Detroit Police Department, crime, COVID-19, coronavirus, Project Green Light, I'm in Greektown Area, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Opponents of facial recognition technology in Detroit are not giving up without a fight

By Steve Neavling
Sep 28, 2020

Tags: Facial recognition technology, Detroit, Detroit Police, Detroit City Council, Project Green Light, Councilman Spivey, Detroit Will Breathe, protest, petition
Metro Detroit

Even if Detroit's facial recognition contract expires, DPD can still use the software 'in perpetuity'

By Lee DeVito
Jul 31, 2020

Tags: Detroit, facial recognition, DPD, Detroit police, surveillance, Project Green Light
Metro Detroit

Facial recognition technology approved in Detroit despite mounting opposition

By Steve Neavling
Sep 20, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Facial Recognition Technology, Detroit, Detroit Police, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, surveillance, Project Green Light
Metro Detroit

Just say no to facial recognition, says Detroit coalition of civil rights groups

By Steve Neavling
Aug 1, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Facial Recognition Technology, surveillance, Project Green Light, Detroit police, Detroit, Board of Police Commissioners, CAIR, ACLU
Metro Detroit

Detroit’s facial recognition surveillance technology provokes backlash, proposed bans

By Steve Neavling
Jul 31, 2019

Tags: Local News, Detroit Police Department, Project Green Light, facial recognition, Police Chief James Craig, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Rep. Tlaib introduces bill to ban facial recognition technology from public housing

By Steve Neavling
Jul 25, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Facial recognition technology, public housing, HUD, Detroit, Project Green Light, Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ayanna Pressley
Metro Detroit

Opinion: It's time for a public referendum on Detroit's Project Green Light facial-recognition surveillance technology

By Willie Burton
Jul 5, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Project Green Light, facial recognition technology
Metro Detroit

Mounting public pressure puts brakes on Detroit's facial-recognition technology

By Steve Neavling
Jul 3, 2019

Tags: Local News, Detroit, Project Green Light, facial-recognition technology
Metro Detroit

A condescending Chief Craig breaks silence about Detroit's facial-recognition technology

By Steve Neavling
Jun 27, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Chief James Craig, Detroit police, Project Green Light, Detroit, Detroit police, facial-recognition technology, surveillance
Metro Detroit

Detroit’s Orwellian facial recognition technology is in Congress’ crosshairs

By Steve Neavling
Jun 12, 2019

Tags: Local News, Detroit, Project Green Light, facial-recognition
Metro Detroit

Researchers alarmed by Detroit's pervasive, expanding facial-recognition surveillance program

You are being watched

By Steve Neavling
May 17, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Surveillance, Detroit police, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Police Chief James Craig, privacy, Georgetown Law, study, Project Green Light, facial recognition
Metro Detroit

How state police can easily identify you from surveillance cameras

By Steve Neavling
Mar 11, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Surveillance cameras, facial recognition, Project Green Light, Michigan, Secretary of State, Mayor Duggan, driver's license
Metro Detroit

Duggan promises more surveillance cameras in State of City speech

By Devin Culham
Mar 6, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Mayor Duggan, State of the City, Project Green Light, Detroit
Food News

Thief steals bottles of liquor in a smash and grab at Norma G's

By Tom Perkins
Jan 17, 2019

Tags: Table and Bar, Norma G's, project green light, Jefferson Chalmers
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Controversial Project Green Light comes to Corktown

By Will Feuer
Oct 31, 2018

Tags: News Hits, Project Green Light, Mayor Duggan, Detroit Police Department
Metro Detroit

Detroit students fight Project Green Light's expansion to schools

By Violet Ikonomova
Apr 23, 2018

Tags: News Hits, Detroit Public Schools Community District, Project Green Light, surveillance cameras, school to prison pipeline, real time surveillance
Metro Detroit

Detroit expands surveillance monitoring program to include schools

By Violet Ikonomova
Apr 3, 2018

Tags: News Hits, Project Green Light, surveillance, DPSCD, detroit public schools, mayor mike duggan, chief james craig, surveillance monitoring, real-time crime center, detroit mayor mike duggan

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