"It ain't about the lights," Jimmie Lockhart, 61, told the Free Press as he steered his volunteer patrol van that morning through the neighborhood around the Cody Complex near Joy Road and the Southfield Freeway. Abandoned homes, where criminals can lurk, still pocked the neighborhood. But the wider spacing of the new light posts left the ends of the block in the dark in the predawn hours when some children are walking to school. On a school morning this spring, one of the new lights lit up the center of a neighborhood block on Detroit's west side. But even in many of the neighborhoods that got the new lights last winter, parents are afraid to let their children walk to school. The city is almost done with a $185-million relighting project as part of an effort to improve safety and quality of life. When Detroit school students return to class this fall, every neighborhood street in the city will have new LED streetlights to brighten their paths.
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