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Detroit’s Real-Time Crime Center: How Detroit cops use tech to fight crime(4min)
- rmason 4y agoThe billionaire Dan Gilbert has his own camera network and police force in the over 100 buildings he owns in the Detroit downtown area. He coordinates everything with the DPD. This is one of the reasons downtown Detroit has gotten so safe in the past few years. A prominent documentary maker from SF stated Detroit's downtown is safer than his hometown. He got some pushback but he provided the numbers to back it up. Most of Detroit's crime is in it's neighborhoods (especially on the East side) that normal tourists have no reason to visit. There's a real debate presently that the high crime neighborhoods either aren't policed or very lightly policed. Detroit has a third less police per 100,000 people than New York City or Chicago. Tech is how they're starting to close the gap.