Looks like Dallas may make a $200 million investment in street lighting to promote public safety. The investments are part of the Mayor's Task Force: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jXXrxHJpRY8EajwMqUPZZSEb1qZ98ipF/view
Reporting here: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/shining-a-light-on-crime-are-brighter-communities-safer-11959907

Lots of evidence that street crime is sensitive to lighting including research on daylight savings time from @jenniferdoleac and @nj_sanders in the US and @pdomingr in Chile and RCT evidence from my work with @benconomics, @jdlerner1 and @lucieaparker

Also evidence that street light outages can cause crime to "spill over" from myself, @JacobKaplan19 and Mike Laforest: http://achalfin.weebly.com/uploads/8/5/4/8/8548116/final_draft.pdf

There is also lots of correlational evidence that lighting causes people to feel safer and some recent evidence from a survey experiment that this is the case: http://achalfin.weebly.com/uploads/8/5/4/8/8548116/lighting_mechanical_turk.pdf