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Detroit’s Project Green Light and the “New Jim Code”

Why video surveillance and digital technology intensify racism

October 1, 2020 • by Vince Carducci

————— Over the last three and a half years, the City of Detroit has greatly expanded Project Green Light, an initiative of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), along with local businesses and other organizations, to use video surveillance and digital technology to fight crime. Since the first cameras went live in ...

Detroit’s Project Green Light and the “New Jim Code”

A dangerous throwback to the persecution of Zoot Suiters

February 1, 2018 • by Lori Flores

Police in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands recently announced a pilot program to target young men in designer clothes who, if they cannot provide proof they obtained their garb legally, will suffer its confiscation or even being stripped on the street. “We know they have clothes that are too expensive to ...