Please report all graffiti ASAP. The association made this a priority at last weeks meeting.
First call police at 893-7780 so that they can document the graffiti and see if it is gang related.
Then call Graffiti Removal 893-7394 to have it painted over. I called to report several spots last Friday and found it had been repainted by Saturday morning. This great service does a lot to discourage more graffiti. When the kids come back to show off their work they find if gone. Soon they get tired of of this and give up.
Much of it is from kids playing with gang signs. Wannabes. This can lead to criminal activity. Some of it is from gangs that provoke violence by tagging each others territory or defacing rival graffiti.
All of it makes the neighborhood look blighted so we accomplish a lot by simply reporting it.
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When I lived in Long Beach CA, they spent $50,000 annually to fight graffiti. I have no idea if it cut down on crime, the police thought it did. What it DID DO was keep the property values from sliding - no one wants to live in an area that has gang markings. Mayor Fisher made it part of his platform here, and as I recall there was actually graffiti on signs overhanging 22nd Ave S. on the I-275. A passing through tourist would see it and get a bad impression.
I'm glad to hear that you are now promoting the clean-up. It can only help.
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