I came across this¹ paper which seems to claim that the provision of 600,000 lumen "lighting towers" in a public housing project reduces crime. It may be true, but the same could probably said for plans of unleashing packs of wild hyaenas during the night.

All a bit too Panopticon for me.

1. https://urbanlabs.uchicago.edu/attachments/e95d751f7d91d0bcf...