The Battle Against Graffiti
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GRAFFITI
REMOVER GIVEAWAY
Be sure to come to the FHRA annual meeting on 6/18/2011 and
pick up your free bottle of graffiti remover. We will also give a live
demonstration on how to use the product to remove graffiti from your
property and around our neighborhood. This product works great to
remove spray paint, ink pen and many other graffiti elements from both
hard and porous surfaces. FHRA will be handing out 16oz bottles of
graffiti remover to help residents remove graffiti that you might see
and want to eliminate. Thanks to our many community activists against graffiti, we have a good record of keeping our community relatively clear of graffiti blight. It is important to remove graffiti as soon as you see it. Leaving graffiti up invites other taggers to make their mark and increases the frequency of this eye-sore. Common places for smaller tags are on garbage cans, bus benches, and street signs. The product we will be handing out at the FHRA annual meeting cleans graffiti off all these objects. If you are able help, we are ready to support you. Providing materials to our residents is one of the many ways FHRA helps you to maintain the wonderful neighborhoods we all enjoy in Franklin Hills. If you need more help with graffiti problems in your area, or want a refill of the graffiti remover, please contact us at FHRA@FranklinHills.org. |
In January 2011, in the midst of a rise in graffiti
in our
area,
the FHRA sent a letter to
Councilmember Tom LaBonge
requesting that he oppose a proposal to cut graffiti removal funding by
50%.
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Leading to Conviction of Taggers
Graffiti related contact numbers
July 23, 2009 a resident
in the 2400 block of Lyric reported:
"Our new fence was spray
painted, quite a large amount! by two juveniles who were seen by my
neighbor down the hill."
The neighbor provided
the photos in the composite above and this description from their
surveillance camera:
"The two taggers trespassed on our
property and the property adjacent to us in order to tag the neighbor's
fence. The taggers climbed up our wall and walked into our front yard
then crossed over to the adjacent neighbor in order to tag the fence of
the neighbors who live on Lyric. When the taggers were done, they left
behind a couple of spray paint cans then walked down the hillside and
onto our property and exited out our front gate. We saw the taggers
climbing our wall and then exiting from our front gate on our
surveillance camera. This happened at about 11:30pm. We reported this
incident to the police and gave them a copy of the surveillance tape,
pictures of the graffiti and the spray paint cans. We felt very
violated and uncomfortable by this incident because they trespassed on
our property, and from the surveillance cameras we could see that the
taggers observed the street for 15-20 minutes before they climbed our
wall. It seemed like they had planned this ahead of time."
The area around Hollyvista, DeLoz and Prospect Walk was hit after 9:30pm on November 28, 2007.
A resident reported that, "An eyewitness spotted a tagger this morning 11/29/2007 attempting to retrieve a bag of paint cans from a bush nearby the scene of last night's tag in an apparent effort to contribute to the mess.The tagger fled down Prospect Walk when spotted by early morning joggers."
ECHO PARK TAGGING GANG
The photo above was supplied by one of our graffiti fighters who also suggests that when you paint out graffiti it helps to use paint that matches the background...don't cover gray with black etc.
FRANKLIN HILLS DECLARED A GRAFFITI FREE ZONE
There are two things that you can do to help the effort. If you see graffiti, e-mail a photo of it to LaBonge's Transportation Deputy, Sharon.Shapiro@lacity.org this will help ID the taggers. Marshall High has a database which often can match to tags to the taggers. You can also contact Shapiro if you want to be a graffiti block captain and get paint and other tools to hit the delete key on tagging in your area.
About 4pm LAPD got calls reporting a teenage girl apparently about to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge where Fletcher Dr. and the 2 Freeway cross the LA River. When officers arrived they found a badly injured 16 year old who had landed on the rocks missing the water's edge by about ten feet.
Her legs were shattered, with protruding bones described as looking like the jagged shards of "cracked chicken bones." Her hands, also torn to pieces, but covered with paint, told not the story of a suicide, but a graffitist who lost her grip as she tried to hang onto the bridge with one hand while painting with the other.
Nearby police found two "homeboys," their faces described as "ash white," who apparently had witnessed the fall. Hopefully they will carry the message, not in paint, but of pain to others inclined to tag their way to tragedy.
Citizen Call Catches Halloween Tagger
He was cited and will soon be working off his community service hours with Officer Colenzo painting out graffiti. This subject appears to have been working the Marshall High School area for quite some time. He is now retired. Our continued thanks to community members that share in our frustration with this type of criminal activity and go the extra step by making that call.
Just thought Id let everyone know about this one,
SLO Al Polehonki
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