Apply for our Racial Equity Fellowship’s 2026 cohort (a.k.a. DEAL 10)!
According to experts, Detroit's Project Green Light is proving to be a dangerous surveillance program through its invasion of rights and use of flawed, discriminatory practices—particularly through facial recognition technology.
Detroiters Speak is an open community classroom featuring Detroit-based speakers and guests. Our focus for the Winter 2019 semester was: Whose Safety? Policing Minds, Bodies, and Borders in Detroit.
Brought to you by the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, the WSU Department of African American Studies, and the Detroit Equity Action Lab, an initiative of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights.
Based on our observations, the police incident that took place outside of the Wayne State University Law School on Nov. 13, 2018, is troubling and calls into question whether and when such police actions and protocol are appropriate.