DETROIT – Project Green Light Detroit celebrates 1,000 business partners.
The idea behind Project Green Light is to use cameras linked to police to keep the community safe.
The program launched in 2016 with eight businesses.
On Tuesday (Aug. 27), the city held a ceremony celebrating 1,000 business partners.
“I never thought I’d see the day we’d have a thousand locations,” said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.
Duggan and Detroit police Chief James White spoke at the ceremony about the need for this program.
“People just simply could not go to a gas station in our city safely,” White said, referring to the time before the program launched.
Officials said the program’s implementation has created a safer city.
To participate in the program, a business must install quality lighting and high-definition cameras that live stream to Detroit’s Real Time Crime Center at police headquarters.
“We started to have times where somebody was being harassed on a road and drove to a green light station because they knew it was a place of safety,” Duggan said.
Several business owners of Project Green Light attended the ceremony Tuesday.
“It helps stop a lot of crime,” convenience store owner Kal Hannawa said. “Definitely should be needed for everyone.”