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Share April 19, 2021, 12:41 PM A four-year academic review of Detroit s Project Green Light has found the surveillance program s effects limited and hard to quantify, The Detroit News reports. The Michigan State University review was an effort to understand the true value of the costly and controversial technology, which city officials have credited with a double-digit decline in the rate of carjackings and civil liberties advocates have bashed as intrusive and unproven to work. But the research ultimately concluded very little: Since Green Light s inception, carjackings citywide have declined substantially dropping at an overall rate of 38% from 2016 to 2019 at participating and non-participating sites, MSU s evaluation found. ....