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Graffiti is a topic that has been brought up and hashed out by the
neighborhood association several times in recent years. We have had the
graffiti removal team come out and talk to us, and I've talked to
Officer Vargas about it on several occasions. Here is some of what I've
taken away from those conversations.
1. We don't have gangs. These are mostly kids who are acting like they
are in a gang -- mostly they are working alone.
2. They get the paint from us. They just steal it from people's garages
and pick it out of the trash. If everybody kept their paint locked away
and disposed of it properly, then we'd have less of a problem. But
expecting "everybody" to do something is unrealistic.
3. More light helps, but not a lot. A lot of the little vandals like to
be brazen and put their "artwork" where people can see it -- under
lights is great.
4. The city will come and cover up graffiti pretty quickly if you call
311. It usually takes them a few days, but they'll get to it.
5. The only real solution is to have more people walking around. The
wall across from my house used to get hit every week. (Between Monty and
me covering it up, that wall must have 400 coats of paint on it by now.)
Now that Epoch is open and people are walking around my street at all
hours of the day and night, I'd say it happens less than once every 3
months.
6. My personal solution is to "act locally." I have informally adopted
Chesterfield because I live there. When the street gets tagged, I get
out my paint and cover it up. I can't do the whole neighborhood, but I
can do my street.
7. If you see that a business has been tagged, the neighborly thing to
do is to offer to cover it up for them. (That one's for you Beka.)
Cheers.
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