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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
Tags: Metro Detroit, Civil Rights, Crime, Government, ShotSpotter, Project Green Light, Detroit Police Department
Detroit’s ‘Chief Storyteller’ leaves role
It’s not clear if the pioneering city position will continue
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Media, News, Politics & Elections, Eric Thomas, Aaron Foley, Chief Storyteller
Detroit’s Project Green Light failed to reduce violent crime, DOJ finds
The report contradicts claims by city officials
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Project Green Light, Department of Justice, surveillance, National Institute of Justice
Entertainment and incarceration in Greektown, downtown Detroit’s wildest district
By Sean Taormina
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Detroit, Greektown, police, Detroit Police Department, crime, COVID-19, coronavirus, Project Green Light, I'm in Greektown Area, Cover Story
Faced with an election loss, Trump will sow doubt about the truth. We can’t let that happen.
By Martin Wallace
Tags: election, 2020 election, democrat, republican, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Trump, Constitution, 2000 Florida recount, 2000 recount, mail-in ballots, ballot count, RAND Corporation, Russian propaganda, firehose of falsehood, RAND, overtime count, Presidential Electors, Electoral College, presidential election, propaganda, Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, The Election That Could Break America, Team Trump, Election Day ballots, November 3, election day, in-person votes, Putin, Russia
Opponents of facial recognition technology in Detroit are not giving up without a fight
Tags: Facial recognition technology, Detroit, Detroit Police, Detroit City Council, Project Green Light, Councilman Spivey, Detroit Will Breathe, protest, petition
Detroit police chief makes baseless claims about 'Marxist' protesters on Fox News
Tags: President Trump, Chief Craig, Detroit, Detroit police, propaganda, protests, Fox News, Louisville
Even if Detroit's facial recognition contract expires, DPD can still use the software 'in perpetuity'
Tags: Detroit, facial recognition, DPD, Detroit police, surveillance, Project Green Light
Court upholds Feds’ repeal of net neutrality; allows state protections
By Suzanne Potter, Michigan News Connection
Tags: News Hits, new neutrality, U.S. Court of Appeals, Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, ISPs
Facial recognition technology approved in Detroit despite mounting opposition
Tags: News Hits, Facial Recognition Technology, Detroit, Detroit Police, Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, surveillance, Project Green Light
Just say no to facial recognition, says Detroit coalition of civil rights groups
Tags: News Hits, Facial Recognition Technology, surveillance, Project Green Light, Detroit police, Detroit, Board of Police Commissioners, CAIR, ACLU
Detroit’s facial recognition surveillance technology provokes backlash, proposed bans
Tags: Local News, Detroit Police Department, Project Green Light, facial recognition, Police Chief James Craig, Cover Story
Rep. Tlaib introduces bill to ban facial recognition technology from public housing
Tags: News Hits, Facial recognition technology, public housing, HUD, Detroit, Project Green Light, Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Ayanna Pressley
Opinion: It's time for a public referendum on Detroit's Project Green Light facial-recognition surveillance technology
By Willie Burton
Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Project Green Light, facial recognition technology
Mounting public pressure puts brakes on Detroit's facial-recognition technology
Tags: Local News, Detroit, Project Green Light, facial-recognition technology
A condescending Chief Craig breaks silence about Detroit's facial-recognition technology
Tags: News Hits, Chief James Craig, Detroit police, Project Green Light, Detroit, Detroit police, facial-recognition technology, surveillance
Detroit’s Orwellian facial recognition technology is in Congress’ crosshairs
Tags: Local News, Detroit, Project Green Light, facial-recognition
Researchers alarmed by Detroit's pervasive, expanding facial-recognition surveillance program
You are being watched
Tags: News Hits, Surveillance, Detroit police, Detroit, Mayor Duggan, Police Chief James Craig, privacy, Georgetown Law, study, Project Green Light, facial recognition
How state police can easily identify you from surveillance cameras
Tags: News Hits, Surveillance cameras, facial recognition, Project Green Light, Michigan, Secretary of State, Mayor Duggan, driver's license
Duggan promises more surveillance cameras in State of City speech
By Devin Culham
Tags: News Hits, Mayor Duggan, State of the City, Project Green Light, Detroit
Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler’s birthday
Side Hustle Lounge opens in downtown Detroit just in time for the NFL Draft
By Layla McMurtrie
Bombshell Treat Bar readies to open in Berkley